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	MAN IN THE NEWS: MILOS JAKES; A PRAGMATIST IN PRAGUE - New York Times
		Jakes was a man who had brought a measure of pragmatism and economic sufficiency to the task of reconstruction, the code word in Prague for what Mr.
		Jakes is in the middle of the road on economic policy.
		Jakes has let be known about his background is that he was born in the southern Bohemian town of Ceske Krumlov on Aug. 12, 1922, and was trained before the war as an electrician and an electrical engineer.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D8133FF93AA25751C1A961948260 (0 words)

	Dolejsi Analysis-2
		There was an amateur documentary film produced that compromised Jakes by showing him in his public appearance in West Bohemia.
		At the same time, Hegenbart was isolating Jakes, who was not briefed about these changes so any un-desirable response [from the communists] would've been eliminated at the beginning of the operation.
		The operational objective of the November 17 provocation was not only to remove Jakes from power, but also to initiate a tactical retreat of the communists to prepared positions.
	www.jrnyquist.com /dolejsi_analysis-2.htm (1723 words)

	1987, Dec. 17. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Milos Jakes replaced Gustáv Husák as head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
		Jakes named Ladislav Adamec premier after the resignation of Lubomir Strougal, who had been premier for 18 years.
		Milos Jakes declared that the government would not discuss matters with “anti-Socialist” groups.
	www.bartleby.com /67/3133.html (311 words)

	printarticle.
		Milos Jakes, 79, who was general secretary of the Czechoslovak party until 1989, and Jozef Lenart, 78, a senior politburo member, now face the prospect of court action more than 12 years after they were ousted from power in the country's "velvet revolution".
		Jakes and Lenart are accused of signing a party document that invited the Warsaw Pact armies to invade the country.
		If convicted, Jakes and Lenart face a maximum 15-year jail term, which could be commuted only through an appeal to their former opponent, the dissident who became the Czech President, Vaclav Havel.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/03/31/1017206173958.html (347 words)

	Miloš Jakeš Information
		Miloš Jakeš (born August 12 1922 in České Chalupy near České Budějovice) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1987 until 1989.
		Following his rise to power, Jakeš began to promote himself as a reformer by verbally advocating the concept of "perestroika." Yet, despite the Communist Party's attempt to appease the public's demand for reform, Jakeš remained staunchly opposed to any dialogue with the growing opposition movement in the country.
		Jakeš was a target of many jokes and much humiliation due to his clumsy verbal style.
	www.bookrags.com /Milo%C5%A1_Jake%C5%A1 (574 words)

	MILOS FORMAN - 18/1/97
		MILOS FORMAN: Well, it was a combination of absurd theatre and hope mixed with the constant fear, because, you know, on one hand everybody had a sort of expectation that things can happen, but everybody in the past was proving to you, "No, no, nothing really can happen.
		INT: What did you try to express with Firemen's Ball - was it a kind of political statement, was it metaphor, or was it your criticism to the society, what...
		MF: You didn't try to express anything; you just wanted to have fun, and somewhere back in your head you knew that you are bugging these idiots, you know, like Bilak and Jakes and Novotny and these totally corrupt people.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-14/forman1.html (0 words)

	Milos Jakes - Conservapedia
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		Milos Jakes was the general secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party from 1987 until he resigned in 1989 during the "Velvet Revolution."
		This page was last modified 19:16, 14 July 2007.
	www.conservapedia.com /Milos_Jakes (0 words)

	Anatomy of A Purge - TIME
		Jakes's humiliation within the party began on July 17, when a videocassette circulated among rank-and-file Communists that showed Jakes berating an assembly of provincial party chiefs for failing to implement his directives.
		Not long after, agreement between Gorbachev and Jakes was reached on the plan for a Politburo purge.
		Smirnov said that a document condemning the 1968 invasion had been approved by the Soviet Politburo, and he warned that with the Malta summit approaching, the document would soon be published.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,959301,00.html (643 words)

	The Prague Post Online: News
		Jakes and Lenart allegedly participated in talks at the Soviet Embassy Aug. 22, 1968, to form a workers' government and agreed to take part in it.
		Jakes, who held the Communist Party's top post of general secretary, and Lenart, a former Czechoslovak premier, appeared attentive but dispassionate during the weeklong proceedings.
		Jakes argued that the trial was political revenge for his leading role in the pre-1989 regime before the collapse of communism.
	www.praguepost.com /P03/2002/Art/0925/news4.php (718 words)

	Communists face trial for crushing Prague rebellion \| Czech Republic \| Europe \| International News \| News \| Telegraph
		Two previous attempts to prosecute Jakes and Lenart in 1995 and 1997 were dismissed by the courts because of lack of evidence and on legal technicalities.
		If convicted, Jakes and Lenart would face a maximum 15-year prison sentence which could be commuted only through an appeal for clemency from their former opponent, the dissident who became the Czech President, Vaclav Havel.
		Questioned last week about the treason charges, Jakes, who still lives in the Prague villa given to him by the party in the 1960s, insisted that his support for Moscow in 1968 was an act of patriotism.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/31/wczec31.xml (838 words)

	Czech Communists Face Treason Charge in '68 Soviet Invasion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Milos Jakes, who was the leader of Czechoslovakia's Communists as they lost power in 1989, and Jozef Lenart, a former Communist-era prime minister, are charged with treason and trying to subvert the republic.
		The two are said to have conspired with Soviet officials at a meeting in the Soviet Embassy in Prague on Aug. 22, 1968, the day after Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the liberalizing measures of the Prague Spring.
		Jakes became the Communist Party's leader, a position he held until 1989, when Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright, led hundreds of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks in peaceful protest to force the Communists to yield power.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2001/Traitors.html (544 words)

	CNN.com - Czech ex-leaders on treason charge - December 20, 2001
		They are Milos Jakes, former secretary-general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and Jozef Lenart, Czechoslovak prime minister from 1963 to 1968 and head of the Slovak Communist Party until 1988.
		The two are accused of attempting to legalise the invasion by trying to form a new government slavishly loyal to the Soviet Union.
		Jakes, 79, and Lenart, 78, allegedly participated in talks on the formation of the government held at the Soviet embassy in Prague on August 22, 1968, one day after the Warsaw Pact troops invaded the country.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/12/20/czech.treason/index.html (372 words)

	Guardian \| Joy as Czech leaders quit
		A new leader was in power in Czechoslovakia last night after the resignation of the ruling Communist Party's general secretary, Mr Milos Jakes, and the entire politburo.
		Mr Jakes had told the meeting that the country was at a 'fatal crossroads,' CTK reported.
		Other speakers at the meeting were angry because Mr Jakes and the hated Prague party leader, Mr Miroslav Stepan - who goes with him - had not been willing to entertain dialogue with the political opposition and had refused to initiate urgently needed reforms.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4804244-110875,00.html (935 words)

	Index J
		On Dec. 17, 1987, the Central Committee elected Jakes to the most important job in the party, that of secretary-general.
		On Oct. 10, 1988, Jakes announced the resignation of Lubomír Strougal as prime minister and as a member of the Presidium, the inner circle of party leaders.
		Although Jakes had kind words for Strougal, Western observers believed that the two had been rivals for years.
	rulers.org /indexj.html (19262 words)

	Index J (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On Dec. 17, 1987, the Central Committee elected Jakes to the most important job in the party, that of secretary-general.
		On Oct. 10, 1988, Jakes announced the resignation of Lubomír Strougal as prime minister and as a member of the Presidium, the inner circle of party leaders.
		Although Jakes had kind words for Strougal, Western observers believed that the two had been rivals for years.
	www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexj.html (18103 words)

	AllRefer.com - Czechoslovakia - Introduction \| Czech Republic Information Resource
		Husak's retention of these positions and the fact that the man who replaced him could hardly be called a reformer suggested to most observers that Husak's resignation was caused by failing health rather than by any fundamental shift in the KSC policies toward reform.
		Considered a firm supporter of Husak, Jakes was viewed as having neither strong reformist nor conservative tendencies.
		In his first pronouncements as the head of the KSC, Jakes assured the KSC's Central Committee that he would continue the cautious and moderate path of reform set forth by Husak.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/czechoslovakia/czechoslovakia10.html (3536 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		A massive purge of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and society was demanded by the Soviet Politburo and implemented by Prague Spring leader Alexander Dubcek's successors, Gustav Husak and Milos Jakes.
		In a bid to rekindle his popularity and prove he was not a stuffy bureaucrat but a regular guy, Dubcek sang a Slovak rendition of Green Green Grass of Home for western reporters.
		Precisely because Dubcek was a former communist party leader, Jakes and his cohorts perceived him as a key threat.
	www.rferl.org /specials/communism/10years/cz2.asp (1184 words)

	Miloš Jakeš (last General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Comm - Czech Forum - All about the Czech Republic
		At age 5, his vocabulary was the same as at age 50.
		During the whole trip, Jakes had nothing to say, but just before departure, he asked through a translator, "Please tell me how it is possible that you have 80% illiteracy and yet everything is so clean and efficient.
		The director of the Škoda company says to Miloš Jakeš: "Dear General Secretary of the Communist Party it would be an honor if we could give you the first new Škoda free!!!"
	www.czechforum.net /showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=387 (422 words)

	William F. Buckley Jr. on Berlin Wall on National Review Online
		His guests of honor were Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev.
		Milos Jakes, general secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, had come from Prague, and, from Warsaw, Wojciech Jaruzelski, still president of the reorganized Poland.
		Yao Yilin was there — vice premier of the Red Chinese regime that had just conducted the Tiananmen Square massacre.
	www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckley200405260822.asp (1838 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now focus on the post-communist states, where a new wave of treason trials seems in the offing.
		The prosecution in the Czech Republic of two 78-year-old men (Milos Jakes, and Jozef Lenart), both veterans of the Soviet invasion of 1968, and the four-year-long trial in Vladivostok of Grigory Pasko, a Russian naval officer, suggests the earliest stages of a cycle where injured states respond to perceptions of betrayal with charges of treason.
		Jakes and Lenart may have sided with the Russian enemy in 1968, but it is not clear what the state gains by beating a dead regime with yet another trial.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/editorials/archives/2002/01/07/118954/print (1036 words)

	Milos Jakes et Josef Lenart devant la justice - 04-09-2001 - Radio Prague (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Milos Jakes et Josef Lenart devant la justice
		Il faut préciser que ce n'est pas la première fois que le cas de ces deux anciens apparatchiks se pose devant la justice.
		Selon le procureur de la ville de Prague, l'affaire pourrait être en état de jugement, au plus tard, dans trois mois.
	www.radio.cz /fr/article/12767 (545 words)

	Jakes, Milos - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Jakes, Milos - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		The Czechoslovak Communist Party criticized the rapid political changes occurring in neighboring Poland and Hungary but found it hard to resist cries for similar democratic reforms at home.
		Meanwhile, the country's economic problems seemed to defy easy, short-term solutions.
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210019656_2/perestroika.html (48 words)

	jakes - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Jakes, jakes : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
		Phrases that include jakes: td jakes, baby jakes matlala, brian jakes, jakes corner, jakes progress, more...
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	www.onelook.com /?loc=pub&w=jakes (179 words)

	Pravý Blok
		Taking into consideration the doubts of the Czechoslovak people, the BBC shot a documentary about the November 17 episode in which the revolution was depicted as an unsuccessful Communist Party coup intended to remove Milos Jakes from the leadership, but the coup got out of hand.
		In the Central Committee of the CzCP there was a group set up (which included Urbanek and Mohorita) under the direction Hegenbart to handle meetings with the Revival of Socialism group.
		There was an amateur documentary film produced that compromised Jakes by showing him in his public appearance in West Bohemia.
	www.cibulka.net /petr/rservice.php?akce=tisk&cisloclanku=2005070211 (1726 words)

	The Velvet Revolution
		It was this overwhelming support by the citizens of Czechoslovakia, which brought upon the collapse of the Communist regime.
		The leaders of the regime, Husak and party chiefs Milos Jakes resigned from their positions in December of 1989.
		After this fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia on December 29,1989.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/EE/Czechoslovakia/velvet.htm (818 words)

	Blog of Death: Jozef Lenart
		Lenart served as prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1963 to 1968, and headed the Slovak Communist Party until the regime collapsed in 1988.
		A year later, he and ex-Communist Party boss Milos Jakes were brought up on charges of high treason for attending a meeting at the Soviet Embassy in Prague on the day after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion that squelched a popular anti-communism uprising.
		Known as the Prague Spring, the incident involved Soviet tanks rolling through the city's streets.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000744.html (202 words)

	Czech Republic page
		Writers and philosophers were locked up or forced to work in manual jobs.
		In 1989 he was replaced briefly by Milos Jakes, a similar person (one of the Gray Men or Nomenklatura).
		In 1989 after the East German communist regime had begun to come to an end with the deposition of Erich Honecker, crowds of Czechs appeared on the streets of Praha and the government fell, to be replaced by a democratic regime.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/europe/czech_Republic.html (1881 words)

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