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Back in Prague, Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer covered a meeting of the Czechoslovak Presidium. Buttonholing key members in the lobby of the historic Spanish Hall of Hradčany Castle, he learned at first hand many of the facts that went into this week's WORLD story. In other times and in other Communist lands, such information has had to be pried out of turgidly written, heavily censored official reports. Ungeheuer found the Czechoslovaks willing and anxious to see that the West gets the facts about their plight...
...forth across the bridges over Prague's Vltava River -the little Soviet flag on the fender discreetly removed. As fast as Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko delivered messages from the Kremlin to government and party offices in Prague, the Czechoslovaks worked feverishly at drafting replies. Then the Czechoslovak party Presidium met to prepare point-by-point answers to a barrage of Russian demands expected at a historic summit conference this week in Czechoslovakia with the Soviet Politburo...
...unity of the Communist camp; and 5) that if Dubček does not act himself, he can expect "international help"-meaning from Red army troops. Dubček hardly seemed prepared to acknowledge any of this, but he did throw a pacifier Moscow's way. His party Presidium, replying to a harsh Soviet note, rigorously denied charges that the country's frontier with West Germany was inadequately defended. But the Czechoslovaks agreed to transfer Lieut. General Václav Prchlik from his party post as chief of security for the army back to strictly military duties...
...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 of assembly...
...most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party Presidium and from his post as Deputy Premier...