Word: bil
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Some Western experts speculate that Husák may have agreed to the trials of lower-ranking liberals in order to fend off demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
Also, Husák is engaged in a power struggle with two rivals on the Politburo, Vasil Bilàk and Alois Indra, ultra hard-liners who immediately welcomed the Soviet invasion in 1968. In order to protect his tenuous position, Husák may have been forced to order the arrests...
...reasons for its popularity can be traced to the opening days of casting. Television puppeteers of genius can be counted on the fingers of Ernie's hand: Burr Tillstrom, who has his own NET series, Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Bil Baird, who operates a puppet theater in Greenwich Village and Jim Henson of Sesame Street. Fusing the best of puppets and marionettes, Henson coined the name and the creature, "Muppet." For six years, Henson's Muppets enjoyed a quiet, loyal following (including Joan Cooney) before they hit the big time on the Ed Sullivan Show. On the Street where they...
...space probes is scheduled to pass close to Jupiter, which apparently has a methane and ammonia atmosphere much like the one that one shrouded the earth. Data from the missions may confirm that the processes now under way in Jupiter's atmosphere parallel those that occurred on earth bil lions of years...
Perhaps significantly, the announcement of Dubček's suspension came just after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had spent five days in Prague. The Czechoslovak party official most frequently seen in Gromyko's company was none other than Vasil Bilák, an ominous sign that he might be Moscow's choice as Husák's eventual replacement...