Word: rapacki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height of the Polish government's campaign of anti-Semitism last year, a top security official handed Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki a list of 14 Jewish diplomats with instructions to fire them. The charge: all were "politically unreliable" because of their Jewish backgrounds. Rapacki refused to go along with the purge, which he correctly viewed as an attempt to get rid of his own moderate allies in the ministry. When the demand was repeated, he reportedly added his own name to the list, then stormed out of the room...
From that day on, Rapacki's days as Foreign Minister were numbered. Last week he finally lost...
...urbane politician who headed Poland's Socialist Party before the Stalinist takeover, Rapacki spent most of his twelve years as Foreign Minister trying, with some success, to take the rough edges off his government's Soviet-dictated foreign policy. His major contribution was the so-called Rapacki plan of 1957, in which he proposed to the U.N. that all atomic weapons be prohibited in Central Europe, including East and West Germany. It was rejected by the U.S. for lack of adequate guarantees, but may have helped pave the way for the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Rapacki...
...Budapest to Copenhagen, signing trade agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor...
Rumanian Trade Minister Gheorghe Cioara has just finished a nine-day tour of West Germany. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu is headed for Rome, and Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki for Sweden. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville in recent weeks has popped up in Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest. Fortnight from now Charles de Gaulle goes to Moscow...