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Questions Invited. Nothing so symbolized Dubcek's determination to press ahead with his "democratization" as the fact that last week, for the first time in 13 years, a Czechoslovak Communist leader held an open press conference, Western style.*Premier Oldrich Cernik welcomed some 100 Czechoslovak and foreign newsmen to the Presidium building in Prague for chocolate cookies, almond pastries, rich black coffee-and some give-and-take. Flanked by Ota Sik, Deputy Premier for Economic Affairs, Cernik first discussed the government's reforms. Legislation was being drafted, he said, to guarantee freedom of the press and the right...
...hand, the Soviet Union was pressuring him to slow down his reforms; Pravda spoke ominously of "subversive activities, antipopular forces, anti-Communist hysteria and anarchy" in Czechoslovakia. To soothe the Russians, Dubček, accompanied by Premier Oldrich Cernik, flew to Moscow for talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Even as they went, however, increasingly vocal liberals in Czechoslovakia were demanding nothing less than full democracy...
...trimming a bureaucracy swollen to 750,000 unproductive clerks and minor officials. To get hard currency for grain and machinery imports, it is wooing Western tourists with film and jazz festivals and easy visas. Last week, in one of the biggest policy decisions so far, State Planning Commission Chairman Oldrich Cernik announced that factories that increase productivity will be allowed to grant wage increases and bonuses. Where productivity falls, warned Cernik, wages will be cut accordingly...