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Comradely Compromise. Relatively few men could have brought oft such changes with such calm and order. A tall, mannerly man with a receding blond hairline, Dubček would be an unlikely choice for the task if only because he is a Slovak-the first ever to be entrusted with the most powerful office in the land. Though he has spent most of his adult life as a Communist apparatchik, he has none of the iron rigidity of that breed. Polite and softspoken, he is a master of restraint and poise, dislikes both dogmatism and pyrotechnics. A persuader rather than...
...swirling unrest, Alexander Dubček entered the fray, carrying the banner of Slovak nationalism. As party boss of Slovakia, he rose at a Central Committee meeting in October and launched a fiery polemic against Novotný for breaking his promises and neglecting the development of Slovakia. In a highly heated exchange, Novotný called Dubček a "bourgeois nationalist," one of the worst insults in the Communist lexicon. Dubček began working behind the scenes to oust Novotný from party leadership, gradually bringing together dissident Slovak leaders, university officials, economists and other liberals. When Novotn...
...Novotnyites quickly got the point. When some tried to resign, their subordinates demanded that they be fired instead. That was the fate of Miroslav Pastyrik, chief of the Council of Trade Unions, and Michal Chudik, president of the Slovak National Council...
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...
...which his father had migrated a few years after a brief, unhappy stay in the U.S., Dubček was an anti-Nazi partisan during 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...