Word: ja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cult of personality does not apply only to Stalin," sneered 52-year-old Hoxha (pronounced Ho-ja), as the delegates from 81 worldwide Communist parties sat gaping. "Khrushchev has distorted the theses of Leninism to suit his own purposes!" Hoxha sided flatly with Red China in the ideological battle to keep Stalinism alive, lashed out at Moscow for organizing the vendetta against Peking at last summer's Bucharest conference...
...freely offered thumbnail descriptions of his old Nazi comrades. His top boss, Heinrich Himmler, was the kind of man who demanded only that "I click my heels and say ja." Next came Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, who had "a well-known failing-a personal failing. He was known for his preening and self-worship." Savagery flashed but once, in his description of Dieter Wisliceny, who had once been Eichmann's best friend and whose name he gave to his second son. But Wisliceny, before being executed, had accused Eichmann of guilt in the mass murders. Eichmann declared that...
Died. Ernesto Jaén Guardia, 65, Panamanian businessman-diplomat, who "just happened to be in Panama City" when pro-Axis strongman Arnulfo Arias was deposed on Oct. 9, 1941, was promoted by the Cabinet from Second Vice President to President of Panama and served for all of three hours; of a heart attack; in Panama City. Jaén Guardia became president at 1 p.m., bowed out at 4 p.m. the same day after changing his mind and turning the job over to Justice Minister Ricardo de la Guardia...
Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
...could longer search the world for suitable speakers, as it had intended. The list of potential speakers was limit. They had no guarantee that people who accepted their invitations-- had come to the United States other, more pressing reasons--would be able to attend. One such disappointment occurred when Ja Ja chuku. Nigerian Minister of Finance had to break his speaking to attend an emergency of the United Nations Congo Committee...