Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four men who were hanged or shot in Budapest last week were not executed in punishment for their crimes, real or fancied. They were killed to alert the Communist world to a major Russian policy decision-a decision so important that Nikita Khrushchev felt obliged to summon four of his principal ambassadors (including ever-smiling Mikhail Menshikov, busy-bee Washington partygoer and TV performer) back to Moscow for conferences, and to call an extraordinary meeting of the 130-man Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R...
...Czechoslovak stooges all last week were ominously baying that Imre Nagy (rhymes with dodge) had spent the last days of the Hungarian revolt "plotting in the Yugoslav embassy" in Budapest. But the fact seemed to be that Tito, like Nagy and Maleter, was not the real focus of Russian wrath but merely the symbol of a problem that has bedeviled the Soviets ever since the death of Stalin...
Beginning with the East German revolt of June 17, 1953-and the Russians, who set great store by anniversaries, announced the Budapest executions on the fifth anniversary last week of that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about...
...combat equipped Marines aboard, canceled an Istanbul visit to remain at sea in the Eastern Mediterranean; the British increased their troop strength in Cyprus to 37,000, considerably more than was needed for quelling Nicosia rioters. The Soviet press, denouncing "imperialist war plans against Lebanon," hinted at sending Russian "volunteers" to help the rebels. Amid these rumblings, Peacemaker Dag Hammarskjold flew on to Cairo this week to explain the advantages of the thin line he had drawn across the Lebanese side of Nasser's Syrian frontier...
...rare gesture of across-the-Curtain appreciation, the top-drawer Soviet Union Academy of Sciences awarded membership to 30 non-Russian scientists and scholars, including two Americans: Nobel prizewinning Caltech Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, vociferous foe of nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...