Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the festivities, Gomulka invited only fellow leaders who share his tough orthodox beliefs in the need for discipline and Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent was the most inflexible hard-liner of them all: East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht. Pleading illness, Ulbricht stayed home and sent Premier Willi Stoph in his place...
...gateway to the Upper Mekong as well as access to Route 13, which links the royal capital of Luang Prabang with the administrative capital of Vientiane. Before this year's Communist spring offensive, it was one of three major government outposts in Communist-controlled northeastern Laos. Then, last April, Communist forces began moving on Muong Soui. To relieve the pressure on the garrison, government troops under General Vang Pao, a seasoned guerrilla leader, mounted a daring diversion: backed by U.S. jets and Laotian T-28 fighter-bombers, they struck deep into Pathet Lao territory, capturing the Communist "capital...
...departments have reaffirmed their recommendations that four individuals involved in last April's strike be granted corporation appointments...
...letter to Henry Rosovsky, chairman of the Ec Department, Ford wrote, "I would appreciate your requesting form Mr. MacEwan a statement explaining just what was his part in the April events, and in particular whether his action did or did not encourage and assist in the forceable occupation of University Hall and the willful disruption of the educational activity of the University. In view of the importance of the proposed appointment Mr. MacEwan has a professional obligation to disclose these facts which relate to his fitness to teach...
...letter is unrelated to any concern for either my professional abilities as an economist or my ability to engage in mutually beneficial exchange with students. I see his action as part of the effort being made to suppress political action of the sort which took place here in April...