Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wine at His Feet. The whirlwind liberalization continued to buffet the country, bringing joy to most people but guilt and grief to others. Defense Minister Bohumir Lomský was among many who were forced to resign in disgrace; he denied having had a role in an attempted coup to prevent...
Despite a warming spring sun and blue skies, Warsaw last week was a gloomy and uneasy city. The press had a strident, scolding tone. Normally talkative Poles suddenly felt it more prudent to avoid the few Westerners who have lately managed to get entry visas, and the government became stricter...
Resolution to Reform. Censorship has been almost entirely lifted, and the press, television and radio have exploded in an orgy of free expression. Long-banned films, plays and books are blossoming into production. The country's judiciary has undertaken to review all cases heard in the 1950s in an...
While the forces of liberalization continued to gather momentum in Czechoslovakia, the regime of Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka stiffened its resistance to reform. To filter out the ringleaders of the student demonstrations that have occurred over the past few weeks, it closed down eight academic depart ments at Warsaw...
At the moment, however, the party seems less concerned with persecuting Liu than with ridding itself of the extreme leftists in its military establishment. Party wall posters now hint that Public Security Minister Hsieh Fu-chih, another Lin Piao loyalist, may lose his job. And the official New China News...