Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumania seemed outwardly calm, but both government and people grew gnawingly uneasy over Russian intentions. On Monday, a gleaming black Jaguar Mark X pulled up to the broad steps of Bucharest's imposing Central Committee building. A brisk little man in a dark suit climbed alone into the back seat. It was Ceausescu, off to the industrial center of Brasov to address factory workers. He was on the move throughout the country each day last week in a skillful and seemingly remarkably successful campaign to rally his people behind him in preparation for a possible clash with the Soviets...
...party. Czechoslovaks joyously seized on his return to Prague as evidence that they had somehow prevailed in their improbable contest of national determination against Soviet force. That belief was buttressed by the fact that during the hours before Dubček's arrival, Soviet armor withdrew from the central part of Czechoslovak cities...
...late July, Author Anatoly Marchenko, a member of the Daniel-Litvinov circle, sent a letter to three Czechoslovak news papers declaring: "I am ashamed of my country. I would be ashamed of my people if I thought that they really did unanimously approve the policy of the [Soviet] Central Committee." A week later Marchenko was arrested. He is now serving a one-year prison sentence for "passport violations...
...Ambassador John Gordon Mein had just left his residence in the suburbs of Guatemala City after a luncheon honoring a visiting State Department specialist in Central American affairs. He was alone in the rear seat of his chauffeured Cadillac as the big sedan moved north along Avenida la Reforma. A small green Toyota suddenly pulled in front and forced Mein's car to the curb. A red Buick darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine...
Last week the L.B.J. completed the list with its first serious riot. The trouble was set off by a fistfight between two prisoners. When guards went in to break it up, the prisoners crashed out into the central compound containing the mess hall, administration buildings and the solitary-confinement cells (which are converted shipping containers). As the wooden buildings broke into flames, 100 M.P.s marched into the stockade with night sticks and tear gas. By the time the gas cleared, one prisoner was dead, his skull crushed, 23 were hospitalized, and 35 more needed treatment for lesser wounds. In addition...