The World - News from April 10, 1988

Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party elevated two officials to the ruling Politburo and three others to senior party posts as it wrapped up its two-day Central Committee session, the official news agency Ceteka reported. Jan Fojtik, 60, considered a hard-liner, and Ignac Janak, 57, were named to the ruling Politburo, while Prague party boss Antonin Kapek was dropped. Kapek, who had been on the Politburo since 1970, was once seen as a hard-liner but reportedly began pushing too hard for economic reform. Miroslav Zavadil, 56, head of the state-run trade unions, was named a candidate Politburo member; Jozef Lenart, 60, the Slovak party leader, will head up a commission on economic reform, and Frantisek Hanus, 45, was elected a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee.