Word: ek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this crisis, Ceausescu has become leader of the country in spirit as well as in title. Rumanians are clearly satisfied that the party leadership has refused to knuckle under. Ceausescu thus has accomplished in Rumania something like what Dubček earlier achieved in Czechoslovakia: the party has acquired its first genuinely widespread popularity. The Czechoslovak ambassador in Bucharest has a fat file containing the names of local families who have volunteered to take in stranded Czechs. A Rumanian writer who spent seven years in jail for organizing a demonstration in support of the rebel Hungarians in 1956 reported that...
...Czechoslovakia's faint remaining hopes for freedom last week flickered up, then died in the darkness of a new Soviet tyranny. Party Leader Alexander Dubček and his government returned from Moscow alive and intact, only to be forced to dismantle their democratic reforms. The tanks pulled back out of sight from the centers of Czechoslovakia's cities, only to be replaced by hundreds of grim, brutal KGB (secret police) agents flown in from Moscow to manage and monitor the country's life. Liberal Czechoslovak officials were soon being removed from their posts, and from Moscow...
...Faint. As the leader of his country's experiment to infuse Communism with humanism and democracy, Dubček was the symbol and hero of Czechoslovakia's will to be free. The circumstances of his arrival last week in Prague, after three days of negotiations in Moscow, illustrated the unyielding grip in which the Soviets and their hard-lining East Bloc allies now hold his land. Dubček's plane landed in secret at dawn. Bulgarian troops and tanks guarded the field, and Soviet secret police whisked him and his fellow reformist leaders in official Soviet...
...Czechoslovak people were aware of little of this at first. They knew only that the Soviets had arrested Dubček as a traitor the week before and spirited him away. Then, in what looked like an astounding turnabout, the Soviet leaders had him flown to Moscow, where they confirmed his status as continuing chief of the Czechoslovak 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...
...ek realizes, however, that economic reforms, which will inevitably mean some unemployment and rising prices, are going to be harder to bring off than political ones. For this task, he needs the same outpouring of allegiance from the Czechoslovaks as that which buttressed his stand at Cierna and Bratislava. There was some early evidence that Dubček might get it. In a voluntary effort to strengthen the economy, thousands of Czechoslovaks last week began donating money and jewelry to the government. The one-week total: $3,000,000 in cash and gold...