Word: karol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians are worried about the increasingly anti-Soviet tone of Dubček's liberalization. Czechoslovak news papers, for example, openly accused the Russian secret police of engineering the forced confessions and show trials of the 1950s. In fact, the onetime state prosecutor at those trials, Karol Bacilek, charged last week that the man who came to Prague to force Czechoslovak Communists to conduct the purge was none other than Anastas Mikoyan, later the Soviet President...
Intransigent Hero. Another new Iron Curtain prelate is Karol Wojtyla, 47, of Cracow, a talented theologian whom the Vatican hopes may get along better with the Gomulka regime than does Warsaw's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Although Wyszynski for years led a heroic battle against Poland's Communist leaders that kept Catholicism alive, Rome seems to feel that his intransigence now stands in the way of gaining further concessions for the church...
...Sinyavsky and Daniel in the U.S.S.R., Mihajlov in Yugoslavia, Jacek Kuron and Karol Modzelewski in Poland...
...magician called The Great Volta. Volta trained her to do her own magic act. She could pluck priceless treasures out of thin air, or shake up a boxful of loose stones, reach in, and remove a tiara. All this was done by wires and other devices, since Karol Carroll (as she was billed) was insufficiently nimble for true prestidigitation...
Last week Old Stalinist Antonin Novotny, President and first secretary of the Communist Party, bowed to mounting pressure from younger party leaders for further liberalization, announced the purge of two oldtime comrades-in-arms. Served up as scapegoats were Karol Bacilek, 66, first secretary of the Slovak wing of the nation's Communist Party and former Minister of Internal Security; and Bruno Kohler, 62, a party member since its founding in 1921 and No. 3 man on the Central Committee Secretariat...