SLOVAK politician, proponent of social democracy and the man widely associated with the “political thawing” of the Prague Spring in 1960s communist Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubček, will be ...

Alexander Dubcek, leader of the 1968 ”Prague Spring” reforms, was seriously injured Tuesday morning when a car in which he was riding skidded off a wet rural highway. Dr. Milan Rocen, head surgeon at ...

Under the Moscow Protocol, Czech officials agreed to Soviet troops being stationed along the Czechoslovak border and reinstating censorship of the press Leading reformes Dubcek and premier Oldrich ...

Alexander Dubcek, the reform Communist who led the 1968 Prague Spring democratization in Czechoslovakia, died Saturday. He was 70. Mr. Dubcek was injured severely when the car he was riding in ...

ALEXANDER Dubček, a politician whose liberal policies far anticipated Gorbachev's perestroika, used to meet with his friends in Bratislava's Horský Park area. The wooded hill above Slovakia's capital ...

Ireland: Former president and UN human rights commissioner Dr Mary Robinson was presented with the gold medal of the Alexander Dubcek Society of Bratislava at Trinity College Dublin yesterday. Dr ...

Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak leader whose bol attempt in 1968 to give his country “socialism with a human face” was crushed by an invasion of Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops, died yesterday. He ...

In the face of Czechoslovakia’s steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk. Before 700 ...