Word: stepan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allies gradually broke down the resistance of Jakes holdouts, including trade-union representatives, while wooing the bloc from the Slovak republic, which was trying to boost its own influence. In exchange, the reformist camp had to make three concessions. They allowed two hard-liners, Prague party leader Miroslav Stepan and trade-union boss Miroslav Zavadil, to keep their Politburo seats. The five Slovak members of the Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment...
...Jakes had reneged on. Then Urbanek clinched a deal in which key figures among those expelled from the party 21 years ago refused to rejoin until the last hard-liners were thrown out of the Politburo. On Nov. 26 Urbanek reconvened the Central Committee and secured the resignations of Stepan, Zavadil and Lenart. The purge was complete...
...ruling Politburo stripped former party chief Milos Jakes and Miroslav Stepan, the former Prague party boss, of party membership yesterday, accusing them of "grave political mistakes in resolving social tensions...
...reclusive author, Aikman drove to Solzhenitsyn's home in Cavendish, Vt. "Solzhenitsyn's somewhat forbidding reputation as a stern social critic," says Aikman, "had not prepared me for the gracious host who bounded out of the house to greet me." The author's wife Natalya and their son Stepan, 15, listened in as Aikman conducted the 2 1/2-hour interview in Russian. When it was over, Aikman was invited to share an informal family lunch: Russian blinchiki (crepes stuffed with ground beef) prepared by Natalya...
...says Sagdeyev, "99% of what man can do in space can be done by robots." The statement irritates his comrades at Soviet mission control. "This crew has done 100 repair jobs," scoffs Victor Blagov, the deputy flight director, arguing that humans are needed to deal with unanticipated situations. Snaps Stepan Bogodyazh of Glavkosmos, the Soviet equivalent of NASA: "You need people there to test the instruments. The cosmonaut is a researcher, and this is a laboratory...