Word: kia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giant Stalin. The week's most dramatic event, the fall of Antonin No votny, followed a country-wide clamor for his resignation. At noisy meetings throughout Czechoslovakia, Novotny was denounced and taunted. In Slova kia, portraits of him were burned. Pe titions for his dismissal poured into Prague. Seeing that he was through, many of Novotny's old friends, including the army general staff, joined the chorus against him. Novotny closed himself off in Hradcany Castle on a hill overlooking Prague, hoping that the storm would blow over. When a news paper suggested that illness might give...
...complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...that he was forced to cancel them, he fired three key men of his immediate entourage. One of the first to go was Secret Police Chief General Teymour Bakhtiar, 48, who had built himself an ostentatious mansion near the Shah's own palace. Then there was General Ali Kia, 53, chief of army intelligence, who built a block of luxury apartments that Teheranis had taken to calling the Where-Did-You-Get-It-From Building. Purged also was Minister of the Interior General Alevi Moghadan, 57; last week eight Majlis Deputies broke all the windows of his home...