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...Look Gustav, how thick the crowd is!" the people chanted, referring to President Gustav Husak, the man who headed the crackdown on democratic reforms after a Warsaw Pact invasion...
...Dubcek to the Castle!" they yelled, referring to Alexander Dubcek, the ousted leader of the failed "Prague Spring" reforms who was replaced as party leader by Husak. Hradcany Castle, a national symbol, is the presidential residence...
From Wenceslas Square, the protesters set out for Hradcany Castle, a national symbol and the residence of President Gustav Husak. They were blocked by police barriers and later dispersed peacefully after a three-hour march...
Ironically, it will be the task of his successor to undo much of that dubious bequest under pressure from a Kremlin leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who is now promoting many of the reforms that Husak suppressed. Whether Jakes (pronounced Ya-kesh) is the right man for that job is hotly debated. A colorless Soviet-trained bureaucrat who presided over a sweeping purge in the early 1970s, he hardly qualifies as new blood. In an interview with TIME, Dissident Playwright Vaclav Havel called Jakes a "man without a specific face, without his own ideas." On the other hand, said Havel...
...chairman of the Central Committee's economic council, Jakes had responsibility for drafting the modest program of economic reforms permitted under Husak. The first clue to his leadership style will be whether he maintains a tightly centralized economy or launches more ambitious innovations. A nation that was once an industrial powerhouse, Czechoslovakia is a potential showcase for reform in Eastern Europe. But will its leaders countenance a new Prague Spring as the price of attaining that status...