Word: miroslav
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allies gradually broke down the resistance of Jakes holdouts, including trade-union representatives, while wooing the bloc from the Slovak republic, which was trying to boost its own influence. In exchange, the reformist camp had to make three concessions. They allowed two hard-liners, Prague party leader Miroslav Stepan and trade-union boss Miroslav Zavadil, to keep their Politburo seats. The five Slovak members of the Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment...
...ruling Politburo stripped former party chief Milos Jakes and Miroslav Stepan, the former Prague party boss, of party membership yesterday, accusing them of "grave political mistakes in resolving social tensions...
...information we have so far indicates that it was an unfounded rumor," government spokesperson Miroslav Pavel told...
...center of the maelstrom stood one Miroslav Medved, a 25-year-old Ukrainian seaman who on Oct. 24 jumped from a Soviet freighter into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Immigration officials questioned Medved through a Justice Department interpreter, via telephone. According to the officials, Medved said he did not want to defect. Later, the interpreter said that they had misunderstood...
...incident came nine days after Miroslav Medvid, a seaman aboard a Soviet grain ship, jumped twice into the Mississippi River in an apparent bid for freedom. U.S. immigration officials returned him to the Soviet vessel. The ship was detained near New Orleans until Medvid was allowed an interview to discover his intentions. By the time the interview took place last week, the Soviet sailor said he wanted to go home. The U.S. release of Medvid to the Soviets drew a chorus of protest from more than a dozen Congressmen...