Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservatives on the Presidium must also be represented. Bilak and Indra joined the delegation, as did another conservative, Jan Filler, the party boss of Middle Bohemia. To balance the lineup, Svoboda was also permitted to bring along three Dubcek loyalists: Defense Minister Dzur, Minister of Justice Bohuslav Kucera and Central Committeeman Gustav Husak. It began to look like Cierna all over again?but on the Kremlin's terms. Before leaving, Svoboda asked the nation via clandestine radio to "have trust...
...Europe," declared Bis marck. Between periods of self-rule, Bohemia fell to the Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started the Reformation 100 years before Luther. The revolt...
...last week became the first Pope to set foot in South America, the only predominantly Roman Catholic continent. The Pope's journey was not an entirely joyous one. Though he received a warm and at times tumultuous welcome, the cause of his trip was a crisis. His central purpose was to try to prevent a disastrous worsening of the division in the Latin American church-a schism between entrenched reactionaries and radical clerics advocating social and political revolution...
...glasses at lovers in a Tokyo park convinced the cast that their stage kisses had been too tame. The uniformly black-haired actors wanted to wear wigs of different colors to make them look more like Americans, but Clurman vetoed the wiggy look. Only Noboru Na-kaya, in the central role of Hickey, was given a shock of red hair...
...villages and replacing village chiefs with military officers. But stronger measures were needed, and in June five battalions moved to launch sweeping search operations throughout South Blitar and its sandstone caves. In two months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party's leadership after the death of D. N. Aidit in 1965, had been killed...