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Thorough Housecleaning. The choice of Ćerník as the new Premier came as part of a thorough housecleaning of government and party. Dubček consolidated his control of the ruling Presidium by naming eight more of his men to that body. The entire Cabinet resigned, including Premier Jozef Lenárt, who was uncomfortably identified with Novotný's regime and had the added disadvantage of being a Slovak like Dubček in a land where ethnic balance among the leaders counts. As chairman of the State Planning Commission, Ćerník is highly...
Police will now be required to wear numbered badges for identification. The party Presidium has even decided to postpone the planned May elections for local, regional and municipal offices until the end of June to give the authorities more time to liberalize the election laws. Novotnýites are falling right and left, quickly to be replaced by younger, more pragmatic men. Last week three top secretaries of the central Trade Union Council were forced to quit, the Czechoslovak Women's Union bounced its boss, the director of the secretariat for church affairs was ousted, and the Minister...
...Prague, hoping that the storm would blow over. When a news paper suggested that illness might give him an honorable excuse to resign - he suffers from gallstones - he telephoned the editors to report that his health was much improved. Politically, he was already in extremis. When the Communist Party Presidium ordered him to resign, he went along like a loyal Communist; the alternative, under Communist discipline, was expulsion from the party. In his final moment of humiliation, Novotny cited ill health as the reason for his resignation...
Greater Voice. At week's end, Prime Minister Jozef Lenart took over the duties of the presidency until the Czechoslovak National Assembly can meet to elect a successor to Novotny. The party Presidium made plans to restore the reputations of as many as 30,000 people disgraced in Novotny's purges. This week the Central Committee is due to get Dubcek's reform program, which is likely to remove some controls on the economy and give the people a greater voice in their affairs. While the other top Communists in the Soviet bloc are clearly worried about...
...party censors from the Central Publications Administration, which oversees the printing of everything from books to streetcar tickets. He has released for production four movie scripts that had been gathering dust in the censors' office, even allowed TV newsmen into-of all places-a meeting of the Presidium. As reassurance to Czechoslovakia's writers and intellectuals, whose clamor for change led to his takeover, Dubček has approved publication of a new liberal journal entitled Literární Listy. Last week he fired the man who was widely despised for making writers toe the party line...