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While he was off in Moscow congratulating the Russians on the 50th anniversary of their revolution last November, Dubček remained behind to organize his revolt against Novotný. Using Slovak grievances over their neglect and the bungled state of the economy as rallying cries, Dubček won the party's "liberal" faction to his cause. Back from the Soviet Union, Novotný quickly found himself outmaneuvered and outvoted in the Presidium, whose interminable meetings last month degenerated into angry personal clashes between Novotn...
Last-Minute Attempt. Novotný had desperately tried to save himself at the last moment by adopting a far more conciliatory line. In his New Year's message last week, he made important concessions to Czechoslovakia's restive Slovaks and promised rebellious Czech students and writers that he would permit the use of "progressive" ideas, even if they came from the West. For added effect, he also hinted that he would let the country's economic reformers resume their experiments with profits and price incentives to get the stalled economy moving again. It was a major turnabout...
Just before Christmas, the leadership crisis was finally tossed to the party's Central Committee. Novotný and his followers futilely tried to stall the inevitable with a filibuster, reportedly attempted to manipulate the militia to help maintain him in authority. Professor Ota Sik, 48, whose new economic model for Czechoslovakia (TIME, Nov. 11, 1966) fell victim to Novotný's apparatchiki, rose before the plenum and made particularly strong denunciations of the old guard-until he was hospitalized with the grippe. By the end of that week, the question was not longer whether Novotný would remain...
...World War II. Since Czechs and ethnic balances are still essential in Czechoslovakia's ruling circles, Premier Jozef Lenárt, another Slovak, will probably be pushed aside for Chief Economic Planner Oldřich Cernik, 44, a Czech who had been generally considered the front runner for Novotn...
...outcome of the Czechoslovak power struggle was a singular victory for liberal forces throughout Eastern Europe. Novotný's fall reduces the number of outright Stalinist rulers to one: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who, understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes...