Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sting before. Early in 1968, he was hounded out of his job at a Kiev radio factory because he had dared to defend Israel during a political lecture. When he applied for an exit visa to Israel, his non-Jewish wife was expelled from the Young Communist League for "Zionism" and disowned by her father, a KGB security police officer. Just before Kochubiyevsky was to get his emigration papers, he was arrested for "slanderous fabrications against the Soviet state...
...tight security surrounding Eshkol's state funeral. The Premier had wanted to be buried at Degania B, a kibbutz he helped to found near the Jordanian border. The Cabinet decided for security reasons to bury him instead on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, named for the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who is buried there. For the funeral, reservists were called up and extra police posted in Arab sections of the city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession moved quickly to the graveside, where the coffin was hurriedly lowered into a stone-lined grave. Acting Premier...
...issues was the Kremlin's overbearing influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar also exploited Poland's latent antiSemitism, and in a skillful campaign against "Zionism" forced a purge that cost several thousand Jews their jobs in the party and government...
...unrest of students and intellectuals, turns out to be more immediately challenged by an inner group that has used that unrest for its own ambitious purposes. Harder-lining than Gomulka, the men who make up this group have maneuvered to push their own people into power, used anti-Zionism as a club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka in the press. They are finding, however, that the wily Gomulka, 63, who spent five years in prison for his anti-Stalinist stand before becoming party boss in 1956, is no pushover. Last week Gomulka managed to avert...
...deceives himself into thinking he loves his town." The guest is soon disillusioned. War and time have done their disfiguring work. The town is poor. Its sickly citizens limp about on wooden legs, use grenade-smashed faces as beggars' blackmail. Gone are the old fireball discussions of Zionism, socialism, and who will be the next rabbi...