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Word: chaika (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter to the gates of Hradcany. Waving red-white-and-blue Czechoslovak flags that they had torn from buildings festooned for the anniversary, the youths shouted what their elders no longer dared: "We want freedom!" "Better dead than shame!" When they spotted Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko's black Chaika limousine behind the barred iron grille of the castle, the crowd cried, "Russians, go home!" "We have the truth, they have the tanks!" For a moment, the gates threatened to give way, but a squad of Czech police and militia managed to push the crowd back. The Soviet ambassador left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: A Release of Animosity | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...week the gleaming black Chaika limousine of the Russian ambassador sped back and forth across the bridges over Prague's Vltava River -the little Soviet flag on the fender discreetly removed. As fast as Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko delivered messages from the Kremlin to government and party offices in Prague, the Czechoslovaks worked feverishly at drafting replies. Then the Czechoslovak party Presidium met to prepare point-by-point answers to a barrage of Russian demands expected at a historic summit conference this week in Czechoslovakia with the Soviet Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward a Collective Test of Wills | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...spirit of 5 Novym Godom even extended to Nikita Khrushchev. Reportedly, the deposed Chairman has been granted the handsome pension of $660 a month-twice what top Soviet functionaries normally receive-and has been allowed to keep his chauffeur driven Chaika limousine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: S Novym Godom | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...Obviously, the opposite was true. During their last week in Moscow, while Western negotiators were feted and nattered, a kind of Great Wall surrounded the unwelcome visitors from Peking. From their isolated compound on Moscow's Lenin Hills, the Red Chinese delegates ventured out only in curtained black Chaika limousines for the short drive to Peking's embassy; on alternate days they met with a Soviet delegation, obviously to no effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Get Out of Here | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...four Ghanaians and a Nigerian, were charged with treason in connection with half a dozen explosions that killed 35 persons and injured 300. The bombing began last August, when the blast of a hand grenade wounded Osagyefo in the shoulder as he drove by in his Russian-made Chaika limousine near the northern border village of Kulungugu. Nkrumah's cops have been rounding up suspects ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Dealing with Enemies | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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