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WORLD IN BRIEF : CZECHOSLOVAKIA : Soviet Warning on Foot-Dragging

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Communist Party officials in Prague said they have been warned by the Soviet Union against further delay in introducing political change in Czechoslovakia, the New York Times reported. The first major public signs of fear, tension and conflict within the Prague government are begining to appear as a possible consequence of the high-level message, the newspaper said. Moscow is reported to have cautioned Prague not to make the same mistakes as those made by party hard-liners elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the paper said.

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