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CZECHOSLOVAK POWER STRUGGLE INTENSIFIES The confrontation between reformers led by new party boss Alexander Dubcek and conservatives headed by his ousted predecessor, Antonin Novotny, could get out of hand. The power struggle is no longer a purely intraparty affair because large segments of the pop- ulation have become embroiled. Dubcek's widely welcomed "action program" calls for a sharp reduction in the party's role and for the "widest possible demo- cratization of the entire socio- political...