Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orgy of breast-beating confessions was reminiscent of the old days, but the roles were curiously reversed. At Prague's Hradčany castle last week, deposed Party Boss Antonín Novotný led members of his old guard in recanting past mistakes before the Communist Party's Central Committee. He had, Novotný admitted, been guilty of "serious errors and aberrations" that had left "a dark stain" on the country. The reformers, many of whom had been humiliated by worse rituals in the past, did not linger long over their triumphal moment. After days of debate...
...extent of the campaigns, and their continuing anti-Semitic cast, raised doubts as to whether Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka still exercises complete control of the party. Not only has Gomulka's plea for an end to the anti-Zionist campaign three weeks ago been ignored by the government, but mutterings of dissatisfaction with the stagnant Gomulka regime have begun to appear in the Polish press...
More than Willing. The two men standing in the wings who have most to gain by a weakening of Gomulka's position are Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar and Silesian Party Boss Edward Gierek (TIME, March 29). As head of an organization of onetime underground fighters known as the Partisans, Moczar, 54, intensely dislikes the Jews in government because many of them returned to Poland with Russian troops and held posts during Stalin's time. He is anxious to see them dismissed, even more anxious to see them replaced with his own men. Gierek, who was the first national...
...years that embodied most of the liberal concepts of Western democracies. Drafted in 1949, when the Communists hoped to impose it on a reunified Germany, the constitution contained sections on human rights and religious freedom that were designed to allay the fears of nonCommunists. Not surprisingly, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht never bothered to put those provisions into practice. Last week, in the first referendum ever held in East Germany, citizens dutifully approved a new constitution that is more in line with the totalitarian nature of the regime...
...members must physically accompany guests around the course to make certain all niceties are observed; if a member is suddenly called away, the game is over. Roberts' rules of golfing order have provoked resentment on occasion. Explains one member: "A lot of our people are accustomed to being boss back home. They say things and people jump. That doesn't work at Augusta...