Word: erne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry through such reforms, the country's new Premier, Oldřich Černík, 46, organized a new Cabinet of forward-looking moderates who are unlikely to revert to the old ways. Among the members are such men as Interior Minister Josef Pavel, 59, and Defense Minister Martin Dzur, 48. Both of these new ministers were purged in the past and served stiff prison terms. The new Minister of Culture and Information, urbane, polished former Editor Miroslav Galuška, 45, is a favorite of the country's liberal writers, who were the catalysts of reform...
...rituals in the past, did not linger long over their triumphal moment. After days of debate and amendment, they pushed through Party Boss Alexander Dubček's "action program" for the democratic reform of Czechoslovakia (TIME cover, April 5). Then they nominated Economist Oldřich Černík, 46, as the new Premier to organize a government that will carry out "a renaissance of socialism...
Thorough Housecleaning. The choice of Ćerník as the new Premier came as part of a thorough housecleaning of government and party. Dubček consolidated his control of the ruling Presidium by naming eight more of his men to that body. The entire Cabinet resigned, including Premier Jozef Lenárt, who was uncomfortably identified with Novotný's regime and had the added disadvantage of being a Slovak like Dubček in a land where ethnic balance among the leaders counts. As chairman of the State Planning Commission, Ćerník is highly...
Ruefully admitting that his soldiers "are not doing so well" against the guerrillas, he ordered reinforcements sent to the besieged province. >In Thailand, where a Communist insurgency is raging in the northeast, new trouble came from rebel Meo tribes men in the remote hills of northwest ern Nan province. Though only 100 to 200 strong, the Communist-led tribesmen have consistently bushwacked government patrols, killing more than 30 men. Last week in nearby Chiang Rai province, another Meo band shot down a government helicopter. The increased guerrilla activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General...
BOLIVIA Jail withAll the Comfort For a man sentenced to 30 years in prison, French Intellectual Régis Debray enjoys many of the comforts of home. At the officers' club in the south ern Bolivian town of Camiri, where he has been locked up for helping Che Guevara's guerrillas in their abortive attempt to topple the Bolivian government, Debray's jailers generously allow him to have a radio, his books, paper and pencils. Food is sent in from a restaurant. Last week the Bolivian army threw in the ultimate, if only temporary, comfort: a wife...