Former Czech premier

Workers Press no. 13, 15 October 1969 · scan page 5

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expelled 'CETEKA', the Czech news agency, announced on Monday the expulsion of Professor Ota Sik from the Czech Communist Party.

Sik was the main author of the Party's economic reforms under Dubcek and served as deputy Prime Minister until the Soviet invasion.

Since the Kremlin occupation he has spent most of his time in Switzerland and was removed from the Party's Central Committee last May after he refused to return to Czechoslovakia.

The reason given for Sik's expulsion was activity 'incompatible with the principles of the Party'.

Sik is the highest-ranking Party member to date expelled in this new round of purges in Czechoslovakia.