Word: zdenek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geritol," the 23rd session will likely provide more than usual amounts of vitriol. Czechoslovakia and Viet Nam offer abundant fuel for debate, even though both are absent from the 99-item agenda. But they are effectively out of the U.N.'s scope. Czechoslovakia's new representative, Zdenek Cernik, spread the word that an Assembly debate would be most unhelpful to Prague, and the Russians, who doubtless dictated Cernik's position, vociferously agreed...
...demanded withdrawal of Russian troops before the U.N. Security Council last month. He was the third reformer of ministerial rank to be sacked (Deputy Premier Ota Sik and Interior Minister Josef Pavel preceded him). Among other leaders forced out: Television Chief Jiři Pelikán, Radio Chief Zdenek Hejzlar and Dr. František Kriegel, popular liberal member of the Presidium. Brezhnev tossed Kriegel out of the Soviet-Czechoslovak meeting in Moscow last month by icily ordering Dubček: "Get this Galician Jew out of here...
Carrot Friends. The other case involved a different kind of mike. In 1961, Frank John Mrkva, State Department visa courier and the son of Czechoslovakian-born parents, met Zdenek Pisk, then a third secretary at the Czech embassy in Washington. Aft er a number of casual conversations with Mrkva (whose surname means "Carrot"), Pisk became confident that Carrot was ready for uprooting. Pisk arranged a private dinner, suggested that Mrkva, now 38, might want to help the Czech Communist cause by doing a little spying. "Knock off the patriotism business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered...