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Still, the once monolithic regime seemed to be of two minds about political reform. Rude Pravo, the official party daily, revealed last week that Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec had urged that "we now need political reforms to go even faster" than economic changes. Adamec added, "The country can be ruled only on condition that its people feel confident about the government." It was a direct contradiction of Jakes' doctrine that economic opiates -- adequate housing, food and clothing -- would numb the populace to the desire for political liberalization. So strong was the whiff of reform in Prague last week that hard...
...biggest danger to Prague's inflexible leadership is an explicit Soviet disavowal of the 1968 invasion. Amazingly, that might be in the offing. Rude Pravo reported that Prague's chief of ideology, Jan Gojtik, had met with his Soviet opposite number in Moscow. Rude Pravo confirmed that the two men had dealt "with the history of the relations between the Communist parties, including the year 1968" and that "they reached a full identity of views." It has long been the accepted wisdom among Western and Czechoslovak experts that if the legitimacy of the 1968 invasion were ever officially questioned...
...Friday, police had quelled the protests and banned a memorial planned for the weekend at Palach's birthplace, in a village about 20 miles north of Prague. Government officials assailed the rallies as antistate provocation aimed at capturing international attention. Said the Communist Party daily Rude pravo: "The instigators of these actions are intent on destabilizing our society, on pressuring the socialist state." Instigators such as Mikhail Gorbachev, perhaps? Ironically, many of the demonstrators had been chanting "Gorbachev, Gorbachev" and "Gorbachev is watching you," invoking the Soviet leader whose political reforms the Czech leadership claims to support...
...that Jakes's selection had been vetted by the Kremlin. Gorbachev, who made little secret of his dislike of Husak, sent a congratulatory message to Jakes, predicting that his appointment would lead to the "further development and revival of Socialism on Czechoslovak soil." When the local party daily Rude Pravo published the Soviet message, however, it dropped the word revival, with its implied criticism of Husak...