Word: praesidium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also it was announced that Anastas I. Mikoyan, 70, grand old man of the Bolsheviks after 48 years in Soviet politics, resigned from his largely ceremonial job as President of the Praesidium, the Soviet Parliament, because of ill health. He was replaced by Podgerny...
...grim, quiet East German left his house in East Berlin a fortnight ago and made his way to the Praesidium der Volkspolizei for a pass to enter the Western zone. A three-month pass was duly handed over, and he was not surprised, for Dr. Kurt Scharf, 58, is chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany-the highest post in German Protestantism-and his wife and four children live in the Western zone, where he has been visiting them about once a week...