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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 23
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  4.     DIED. Alexander Dubcek, 70, reformist leader of
  5. Czechoslovakia whose attempt to introduce "socialism with a human
  6. face" during the Prague Spring of 1968 was crushed by Warsaw Pact
  7. tanks; of injuries suffered in an auto accident in September; in
  8. Prague. Though Dubcek's goal in instituting reforms was to
  9. strengthen socialism, the Kremlin feared erosion of party power.
  10. After the crackdown, Dubcek was stripped of his party membership.
  11. He re-emerged in November 1989 to join Vaclav Havel in
  12. proclaiming a democratic Czechoslovakia.
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