Word: succeeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus ended the career of one of Communism's most guileful and skillful leaders. One of Novotny's first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs...
...prisoners' families. The whole prison ethos can be changed. Just as astronauts train by simulating space conditions, so prisons should be located right in the inmates' community, where a vastly augmented treatment staff could use local resources to help the offender identify with an-ticriminal people and succeed at legitimate work...
Their efforts will not succeed, many party officials privately admit. "The people want to be voting in the primary where the action is, and this year the action is in the Democratic primary," one Republican said...
...tour factories, where he no doubt tried to win worker support by predicting unemployment, inflation and other hardships from Dubcek's reforms. It seemed clear, however, that the party was about to nudge Novotný off his last perch in the government. Already three men were mentioned to succeed him as President: Minister of Forestry Josef Smrkovsky, 61, General Ludvik Svoboda, 61, and Deputy Prime Minister Oldřich Černik, 46. fA are liberals of the Dubček stripe...
...President of Panama was impeached last week. The charge: that he violated a constitutional provision that prohibits the President from giving "direct or indirect official aid to a candidate." President Marco Aurelio Robles, 62, who cannot succeed himself by law and thus is not running in the May 12 presidential elections, was charged with aiding Finance Minister David Samudio, 57. Robles was accused of allowing his press office to release an official announcement of support, attending a fund-raising banquet for Samudio and writing a letter recommending Samudio's presidential candidacy to his Liberal Party directorate. Since the coalition...