Word: janko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Janko, 50, made a particularly dramatic departure. Accused of having had a role in trying to organize a coup in Novotny's behalf last January, Janko shot himself to death in the back seat of his chauffeured Tatra while on the way to answer the charges before the Czechoslovak Cabinet. In an effort to save his own scalp, Novotny himself was forced to fire two of his most loyal men-Interior Minister Josef Kudrna and State Attorney General Jan Bartuska. The Cabinet linked both men to the army coup attempt and, further, accused them...
...Tito signed a protocol with the Vatican, purged-and then reprieved-his leading reactionary lieutenant, Aleksandar ("Marko") Ran-kovic, and released from 41 years in prison his archcritic, liberal Author Milovan Djilas. In the first such defiance in a Communist state, Slovenian party members bucked their boss, State President Janko Smole, over a planned austerity program, and forced his temporary resignation. The Yugoslav state security agency, UDBA, was cut back by 5,000 cops, and deprived of its power to interrogate suspects outside of court. Most important, Tito declared an end to party "commandism" and declared that Communists must henceforth...
...that Janko Smole, president of the executive council of the Yugoslav state of Slovenia, found himself confronted with noisy objections fortnight ago in the regional legislature. He was trying to push through a bill streamlining the Slovenian health-insurance bureaucracy-for which over half of the deputies worked and thus were reluctant to see reorganized. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce Smole's proposed law. Tolerantly, the president let the deputies rant and rave, confident that when all was said, the party's will would be done as usual. But when he called for a vote, the measure...