Two Czechs Resign
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) AGUEH, July 12.
Two more leading political figures of the Dubcek era have resigned from their posts. Dr Cestmir Cisar, the 50-year-old ideologist of the 1968 liberalisation, resigned from the Czech National Council, which he had headed until last November, and Mr Stefan Sadovsky, former head of the Slovak Communist Party and a former Slovak Premier, resigned from the Slovak Party Presidium.
Mr Sadovsky was regarded as a moderate, and a supporter of present party leader, Mr Gustav Husak. Unlike Dr Cisar, he was not a leading liberal, and his resignation was something of a surprise. A plenary meeting of the Slovak Communist Party central committee also heard a denunciation of the former party leader Mr Alexander Dubcek, as an unrepentant Right-wing opportunist who had refused to confess his mistakes. Mr Jozef Lenart, who replaced Mr Sadovsky as Slovak party leader in January, accused Mr Dubcek of trying to transform the Communist Party into “an opportunist party of the social-democratic type.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32349, 15 July 1970, Page 23
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