Word: kadar
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Since Russian tanks crushed the Budapest uprising in 1956. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, 50. has ruled Hungary with judicious use of carrot and club. He ruthlessly exterminated the revolt leaders but tried to woo the Hungarian people with consumer goods and such self-deprecating slogans as "He who is not against me is with me." To get the faltering economy moving. Kadar replaced many of the inefficient Red managers with non-Communist Hungarian technicians, arguing that "political reliability and professional competence are two different things...
More than five years since Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolution and Janos Kadar took over as the country's ruler, the secret police still make dead-of-night arrests, and land mines along the Austrian frontier still deter potential escapes. But, imitating Nikita Khrushchev's methods, Communist Kadar has begun to loosen the noose around the Hungarian people. While forced collectivization of agriculture continues, luxury and hard goods are more abundant, even though prices are high. Last week Kadar announced a policy of peaceful coexistence between Hungary's Communist rulers and non-Communist majority...
...Kadar acknowledged that there were still "class enemies" in Hungary, but said that "whatever the class enemies may do, they cannot do us as much harm as we can do ourselves with our own mistakes. The people demand humane treatment and confidence." Kadar even paid a backhanded compliment to democracy. Although Hungary has a one-party system, he said, "we must work as if we had a 20-party system and a secret election every day, because only then will the people support...
Even more than most Soviet satellites, the regime of Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar is regarded by the U.S. with revulsion. Ever since Kadar was installed by Soviet bayonets that snuffed out the 1956 revolution, the U.S. conducts almost no trade relations with Hungary, maintains a skeleton legation and only a chargé d'affaires in Budapest. In addition, on the motion of the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly every year schedules the Hungarian question for debate, receives a report from the U.N.'s special representative, New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, on the continuing suppression of human...
From Washington, State Department reaction to the deal was swift and damning: to propose trading Cardinal Mindszenty for U.S. reconciliation with the Kadar regime or for dropping the Hungarian question from the U.N. agenda is simply a form of blackmail...