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Word: zdenek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prague Spring-the 1968 reform movement led by Alexander Dubček that was brutally crushed by Soviet troops. In addition to the Kohouts, the chartists include former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, former Politburo Member František Kriegel, former Party Secretary Zdenek Mlynar, Student Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed in 1952 during Stalinist-style purges. Dubček, who now holds a minor bureaucratic post in the Forestry Commission in Bratislava...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: Spirit of Helsinki, Where Are You? | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Strangely, one witness to Ingwerson's will was Zdenek Cerveny, Thomas Riha's nephew. Cerveny now denies witnessing the will. He also says that Galya instructed him to help dispose of Riha's property after his disappearance, and now believes that his uncle is dead. And it was Cerveny who filed the only official complaint in the Riha case-a belated missing-persons report last October. Another minor beneficiary of Ingwerson's will, Barbara Ebert, also a friend of Galya's, died last September, also of cyanide poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mysteries: Tom Cat and the Colonel | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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