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Tepe Yahya gets its name from a Persian king who, according to legend, forbade a certain marriage, whereupon the people rose in revolt, cut off his head, and buried it in the mound...
...Walter Ulbricht, who has opposed recent Polish efforts at détente, proposed "close comradely ties." From all parts of Poland-and from almost all sectors of its party structure-came telegrams of felicitation and support. Politely, none of the encomiums touched on the most relevant fact of the revolt: that workers, in a so-called workers' state, had toppled an entrenched but cumbersome and unresponsive Communist government, deriding it as a "Red bourgeoisie...
...death toll probably exceeded 300 -far more than the figure "in the teens" officially admitted during the protests. The sudden replacement of Gomulka by Gierek after hasty meetings of the Politburo and the Central Committee clearly indicated how worried the party was by the sweeping nature of the revolt, as did Gierek's initial, conciliatory moves. He ended the state of emergency, under which police and the army had been sent into the riot zones along the Baltic seacoast with orders to shoot to kill. As cities quieted, dusk-to-dawn curfews were lifted in time for pious Poles...
...leaders of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region. Guido Fanti, the Communist president of the region, rose before his 50-member council to deplore "the tragic events of Poland." The Communist mayor of Bologna, Renato Zangheri, expressed "the strongest condemnation of the use of arms" to suppress the revolt...
Disillusioned Mentor. A directors' revolt forced Keck out of his $ 150,000-a-year job. He was a smart operations man, but he irritated board members by his strong-willed stands, often on minor issues. Some directors thought that his spending on new equipment was excessive, given the state of business. They criticized him for pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board too hard to increase fares and reduce competition...