Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounder currency and a more viable economy. But curiously, the initiative for merger came from Syria. The reasons lie in the tangled skeins of Syrian politics. Three weeks ago Syria's pro-Nasser nationalists became seriously alarmed at Communist gains, especially inside the Syrian army. Pro-Russian Defense Minister Khaled el Azm was talking of forming his own political party, and was given a good chance of supplanting the ailing Kuwatly as President...
...torture-scarred hands of Janos Kadar were a dual convenience for the Russian conquerors. Those hands could sign the death decrees that crushed revolutionary leadership. And their scars were a reminder that the Premier himself had suffered to the limit (including emasculation) in old Premier Rakosi's Stalinist jail, thus represented to despairing Hungarians a glimmering hope of a better Communist leadership. Kadar soon destroyed what hope there was. His guarantees of democratic reforms never came through; vows of amnesty for revolt heroes were broken in a blood bath of summary trials; the workers' councils got promised support...
Munnich gives Hungarians little to look forward to. A founder of Hungary's Communist Party and long a resident of Russia (he holds both Hungarian and Russian citizenship), he has been a stolid Moscow servant for decades. As Hungary's postwar ambassador to Finland, Bulgaria, Russia and Yugoslavia, he avoided involvement with the dangerous infighting inside the party, concentrated on Tokay wines, women and his rose garden...
With Kadar, Munnich briefly joined Imre Nagy's revolutionary government, then switched to become Minister of Interior and Defense in the Kadar regime. Two months after the revolution, his new police and army apparatus was working so smoothly that Russian troops could retire to rural barracks...
...regime last week signed an economic agreement with the Soviet Union for machinery and technical aid in return for Ceylon's tea. In the last year, 600 Ceylonese have toured the Soviet Union as Moscow's guests. Under a new Soviet-Ceylonese cultural pact, 21 Russian teachers last week bustled about the island meeting their Ceylonese counterparts. Premier Banda professes no fear that his tiny country might be overwhelmed in such exchanges. "My dear fellow," he assured a visitor, "there is great power in Buddhist thought. Our impact is much greater than our size would suggest." As proof...