Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of Budapest's Moscow Square, were found guilty of "trying to overthrow the Hungarian People's Democracy," and executed. The Hungarian Writers' Union, which had sparked the revolution, and the National Association of Journalists were dissolved. Two writers were indicted for having circulated underground newssheets. In preparation for a series of show trials, the legal system was being purged of prosecutors who had shown "undesirable leniency," and juries were being castigated for allowing "bad liberalism" to take over from "strict...
...Back in Business. Teller's "if" is enormous-but practical. To save lives and limbs under nuclear attack, the U.S. needs "deep underground shelters [so numerous] that in any densely populated area in this country people can walk to a shelter within 15 minutes." Stored in the shelters would be food, medicines, communications equipment, decontamination devices, and mining machinery for digging out through blast-blocked entrances. "These shelters," he writes, "could provide protection, not only against the radiation hazard, but also against the biggest immediate hazard, the fire-storm...
...look" period after Stalin's death, be reinstated. But the Central Committee got wind of their plans and suppressed the Petofi Club. Janos despaired: "We are too young to be followed by the people. We are unknown. We must start organizing and think in terms of years of underground work." Janos had been excited by the news from Poland of Gomulka's successful defiance of Khrushchev, and sensed that there was a corresponding force waiting to be released in Hungary...
...Emanuele Rocco, an editor of Italy's Communist daily Il Paese since 1952 and longtime protégé of Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Rocco, 34, first worked or L'Unita and helped turn it from a wartime underground weekly into the official Communist daily (estimated circ 350.000), which claims to be Italy's second biggest newspaper (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera). On Il Paese (estimated circ. 50,000), L'Unita's sister paper, Rocco played up stories of Russian brutality in Hungary, persuaded Editor in Chief Tomaso Smith to run editorials...
...been further reported that the secret police have arrested a number of Moscow students for forming what was called an "underground political organization...