Word: dej
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumania. Along with Gomulka, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (pronounced Ghee-or-ghee-you-DAYGE) is one of the rare satellite leaders to enjoy some degree of genuine popularity in his own country. A small-town boy from Moldavia whose education stopped with elementary school, Gheorghiu-Dej, 58, began his real schooling when he was jailed in 1933 for organizing a bloody railway strike near Bucharest. After eleven years in prisons and work camps, he was allowed to escape in 1944, as a gesture to the advancing Red army, began rising rapidly through Rumania's Communist hierarchy. (To distinguish himself from...
...next move was more spectacular. He had decided, he announced, to come to New York Sept. 20 to lead the Soviet delegation at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Apparently this meant quite a gathering of the clan. Day before. Rumania's Party Chief Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej proclaimed that he would head his country's U.N. delegation. Presumably, all the satellite leaders would troop across...