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...Novotnýite conservatives, whom most Czechoslovaks suspected of issuing the call for intervention, to give some credence to the rumor by at least keeping their mouths shut. As soon as they were re-elected to a new Central Committee that Dubċek formed last week, Oldřich Svestka and Jan Filler issued denials that they had asked for Soviet intervention. The Soviets were still unable to identify the mysterious Czechoslovaks who had brought the Warsaw Pact forces running...
...butcher named Bedřich (Vladimir Menšík) has been executed for practicing his art on his wife, whom he found in bed with her lover. The back-to-front story of the trial, his discovery, the murder, his jealous suspicions, the happy honeymoon, the wedding, their first meeting, etc. is made brain-bendingly complicated by being worked for ironies on three levels. First, the narrative of the butcher's life in conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging...
...carry through such reforms, the country's new Premier, Oldřich Černík, 46, organized a new Cabinet of forward-looking moderates who are unlikely to revert to the old ways. Among the members are such men as Interior Minister Josef Pavel, 59, and Defense Minister Martin Dzur, 48. Both of these new ministers were purged in the past and served stiff prison terms. The new Minister of Culture and Information, urbane, polished former Editor Miroslav Galuška, 45, is a favorite of the country's liberal writers, who were the catalysts of reform...
...worse rituals in the past, did not linger long over their triumphal moment. After days of debate and amendment, they pushed through Party Boss Alexander Dubček's "action program" for the democratic reform of Czechoslovakia (TIME cover, April 5). Then they nominated Economist Oldřich Černík, 46, as the new Premier to organize a government that will carry out "a renaissance of socialism...
...reforms. It seemed clear, however, that the party was about to nudge Novotný off his last perch in the government. Already three men were mentioned to succeed him as President: Minister of Forestry Josef Smrkovsky, 61, General Ludvik Svoboda, 61, and Deputy Prime Minister Oldřich Černik, 46. fA are liberals of the Dubček stripe...