Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kunyansky, chief engineer of the Defender of the Motherland knitted-goods factory. With two main accomplices, Kunyansky set up an undercover textile mill which, using government yarn, spun out 6,250 high-quality, snug-fitting women's sweaters that sold for 30 to 40 rubles each to budding Ukrainian sweater girls. The operation netted $169,400, was not discovered for seven months. Last week the three ringleaders were ordered to face a firing squad, and 23 of their employees were sent to prison. Almost as impressive as their caper were the generous measurements of their product: an average size...
...shrewd, swarthy metallurgical engineer whom Khrushchev plucked from an obscure job in the Ukraine little more than a decade ago. Brezhnev will now probably give up the merely ceremonial functions of the Soviet presidency, take over as taskmaster of heavy industry and armaments. The second new secretary is Ukrainian Party Boss Nikolai Podgorny, 60, who is expected to take over the supervision of party cadres...
...weary of politics to hand-pick his successor: Ukrainian-born Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, 67, who has brought Israel from a hand-to-mouth economy to the point where its gross national product has risen an average of 11% annually over the past five years, and its dollar surplus is almost an embarrassment. Twice married but now a widower, Eshkol has four daughters, one of whom teaches dancing in Jerusalem, while another is a sergeant in the Israeli army. His new Cabinet strongly resembles Ben-Gurion's old one, and it is unlikely there will be any radical changes...
Kiril Lakota was a Ukrainian, and at 50 he was the youngest and most obscure of the 85 cardinals who met in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope. His very name had just become known in Rome, having been kept in petto by the dead Pontiff-as are currently the names of three cardinals in the breast of Pope John. Said Kiril to his brother princes: "I have spent the last 17 years in prison. If I have any rights among you. let it be that I speak for the lost ones, for those who walk in darkness...
...Vatican is inclined to make. Church officials would like the Hungarians to offer Mindszenty a pardon and restore him briefly to his primatial see-but the Hungarians have evidently refused. Thus the Vatican will probably settle for having Mindszenty slip out and stay out. the formula used with Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi when he was released last February from Soviet custody...