Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Behind him, rust-haired Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Albania's Mehmet Shehu, Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Symbolically, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, his frosty-white hair matted in an undisciplined shag, took his seat in a distant corner, tied to Khrushchev by ideology but less than...
...arrival of Khrushchev and Crony Janos Kadar of Hungary coincided with another journey across international borders. Two young Hungarians, escaping to freedom across the Austrian frontier, lost their feet in a land-mine explosion. A third companion, uninjured, helped his comrades to safety...
...votes Khrushchev could be utterly sure of were those of the Soviet satellites (see box), plus that of Cuba's ineffable Fidel Castro-who was put into his proper slot by a State Department decision to restrict him to Manhattan Island along with Khrushchev, Hungary's Janos Kadar and Albania's Mehmet Shehu...
...rest of Poland's Communist leadership, Gomulka is an irascible, puritanical man who hates conviviality and chitchat; he has strictly forbidden his aides to publicize his private life-which is largely given over to swimming, volley ball and his Russian-Jewish wife Zofja. Like Hungary's Kadar, Gomulka was arrested in 1951 for Titoism, but unlike Kadar he refused to crack despite three years' confinement. Reinstated as First Party Secretary in Poland's near revolution in 1956, he defied Khrushchev's threat to turn Soviet troops loose on Warsaw and granted his people considerable economic...
...among other places, but he was being reminded bluntly that he and his cronies-among whom the most offensive is Hungary's notorious Party Boss Janos Kadar-were about as welcome in the U.S. as the Black Plague...