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...strongest challenge to Kadar's rule appeared to come from ambitious and pragmatic Prime Minister Karoly Grosz, 57. Installed as Prime Minister last June, Grosz, along with most Hungarians, has lately grown impatient with Kadar's determination to hang on to power. In April the Prime Minister told the daily Magyar Hirlap that politicians should not try to disobey "biological laws," an all but direct slap at the leader who has come to be known unflatteringly in Hungary as "Old Uncle Janos...
BUDAPEST, Hungary--Janos Kadar, the hard-line leader of Hungary's Communist Party since 1956, was removed from his post yesterday and succeeded by reform-minded Premier Karoly Grosz...
Reformers who backed Grosz appeared to have emerged as the decisive winners after months of struggle between advocates of change and the backers of Kadar...
Delegates at the national conference had criticized Kadar, openly called for "new faces" and made clear that party ranks are split between old guard Kadar-backers and reformers who hope for more change from Grosz...
...Grosz on Saturday told delegates that the party must break free of "ideological prejudices" if economic and political reforms are to succeed...