Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kadar, 75, who had been expected to resign as general secretary, was named to the largely ceremonial post of party president. The changes were announced after a three-day national party conference...
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...
Word that Kadar would get the newly-created post of party president came over national radio after hours of debate in which a prominent party official said there was a struggle over who would lead the nation's Communists...
Hungary's economic woes have been tied to a period of political stagnation under Party Boss Janos Kadar, 75. Last week's parliamentary debate, however, threw the spotlight on a younger, more dynamic figure: Prime Minister Karoly Grosz, 57, the former Budapest party leader, who assumed the post only two months ago. "Time is pressing. We cannot wait. We have to act," Grosz declared to loud applause from the 340 assembled Deputies. His performance fed speculation that he is the leading candidate to succeed Kadar, who has held power for 31 years...
...grim new provisions are far different from the liberalizing reforms begun by Kadar in 1968. Those initiatives had gradually introduced small-scale free enterprise, allowed farmers to sell crops at market prices and permitted families to boost income with after-hours work. Last week's changes will produce a decline of as much as 15% in real income for ordinary Hungarians next year. In addition, the closing of inefficient enterprises under a new bankruptcy law could in the direst scenarios put as many as 500,000 people out of work...