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Another link was Zdenek Mlynar, who was one of the principal architects of the Prague Spring along with Dubcek. By one of history's most incredible coincidences, he had attended Moscow State University in the 1950s and shared a dorm room there with a young Russian named Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Apparently the two kept in touch, and Gorbachev was intrigued with what his former roommate was doing to reform communism in Prague. Gorbachev later said that Dubcek's reforms served as the main ideological pillars for his perestroika. When Gorbachev's spokesman Gennady Gerasimov was asked at a press conference...
Funeral Ceremony--by Zdenek Sirovy. At 7 p.m. at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call...
...Deputy Zdenek Jicinsky, one of the new Civic Forum deputies and a constitutional lawyer once forced to work in menial jobs for his human rights activities, on Tuesday presented a draft election law to the legislature...
...Zdenek Jicinsky, speaking for the opposition, said one proposal was that Slovak dissident Jan Carnogursky be made first deputy premier and other deputy premiers be named from the Socialist Party and the People's Party...
...short, the system that Gorbachev inherits has done its job all too well. As intended, it has stifled the kind of ingenuity and spontaneous assertion that the new Soviet leader now sees as necessary to revitalize his country's economy and society. Says Zdenek Mlynar, a former top Communist Party official in Czechoslovakia who emigrated to Austria in 1977: "The type of human being ideal for the Soviet system is an obedient and reliable person, carrying out orders and directives but devoid of initiative and responsibility." Unlike the Chinese, the Soviets are not inclined to tamper significantly with the basic...