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Approved For Release 20031MilEcIA-RDP79T00975A011300060001-9 [Czechoslovakia: Dubcek's speech at the opening of the central committee plenum apparently was an attempt to satisfy the party's liberals while mol- lifying the party's conservative wing and the Soviet Union. Dubcek responded favorably to the major demand of the liberals by recommending that an extraordin- ary party congress be , convened in September and that a new central committee be elected. The liberals doubtless were also pleased...