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Konstantin Rokossovsky
Konstantin Rokossovsky , 1896-1968, Soviet general, b. Warsaw. He entered the czarist army and in 1917 joined the Bolshevik forces in the Russian Revolution. Purged in 1937, he was rehabilitated in 1940. In World War II he distinguished himself at Moscow, Stalingrad (later Volgograd), and Kursk and... Read more |
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Lothar De Maiziere
Lothar De Maizière , 1940-, the first and last freely elected prime minister of the (East) German Democratic Republic. He joined the puppet Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1957 and the federal Synod of Protestant Churches, becoming its vice president in 1985. He was minister of religious... Read more |
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Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference meeting (July 17-Aug. 2, 1945) of the principal Allies in World War II (the United States, the USSR, and Great Britain) to clarify and implement agreements previously reached at the Yalta Conference . The chief representatives were President Truman, Premier Stalin, Prime... Read more |
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Muhammad Zahir Shah
Muhammad Zahir Shah , 1914-2007, last king of Afghanistan. In 1933 he became king after his father, Muhammad Nadir Shah, was assassinated. During his reign power was exercised mainly by the king's uncles and a cousin, serving as prime ministers, until 1963, when the king asserted his power. Zahir... Read more |
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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma , 1938-, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine (1994-2005). Formerly the manager of the Soviet Union's largest missile factory, he was a member of the Ukrainian Communist party's central committee (1981-91). Elected (1991) to Ukraine's supreme soviet, he served... Read more |
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Vladimir Meciar
Vladimir Meciar As one of the most prominent of politicians in a newly de-Communized Eastern Europe, Slovak leader Vladimir Meciar (born 1942) has been called the "architect of his country's independence, " but has also faced criticism for his role in the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia. ... Read more |
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Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wojciech Jaruzelski , 1923-, Polish military and political leader. He fought in World War II, became a general in 1956, and began his rise in the Communist party in 1960. During the 1981 crisis involving the trade union Solidarity , Jaruzelski became premier and party leader. Known as a moderate,... Read more |
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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies , 1894-1978, Australian statesman. A barrister, Menzies was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1934 and was attorney general (1935-39) in Joseph A. Lyon's government. Upon Lyon's death (1939), Menzies succeeded him as leader of the United Australia party... Read more |
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tunku Abdul Rahman , 1903-90, Malaysian political leader. A prince, he was the fifth son of Sultan Abdul Halim Shah of Kedah and was educated in England at Cambridge. Rahman entered the Kedah state civil service in 1931. In 1945 he helped found the United Malay National Organization, a nationalist... Read more |
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Thanom Kittikachorn
Thanom Kittikachorn , 1911-2004, Thai political and military leader. He entered the army in 1929, rising to command of a division by 1950. After supporting a coup in 1957 by Sarit Thanarat, he served (1957-63) as defense minister and was (1957-58) also briefly prime minister. On Sarit's death in... Read more |
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Mieczyslaw Rakowski, last Polish communist chief, dies
...Rakowski, last Polish communist chief, diesBY...Biographical: MIECZYSLAW RAKOWSKIWARSAW, Poland Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Polands last communist...chairman and ... |
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No Hercules. (Mieczyslaw Rakowski)
...POLAND'S new prime minister, Mr Mieczyslaw Rakowski, does not...members of the Polish opposition see Mr Rakowski as an anti...in 1981. Former colleagues...Nor does Mr Rakowski make up ... |
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Last Polish communist party chairman Rakowski dies
Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poland's last communist-era party chairman and prime minister, has died, Polish media and officials...reported that Rakowski died Friday...including former ... |
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Polish Chief Seeks More U.S. Aid;Rail Strike Confronts New Prime Minister
...Poland's new prime minister, Tadeusz...rescue the Polish economy...Mazowiecki, a former editor for...to Poland last month, announced...Party leader Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who was...Aug. 2. ... |
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Gorbachev's advice ended threat - now
When Polish Communist leader Mieczyslaw Rakowski pleaded for...distance telephone last week, he received...swim upstream. Rakowski, the wily former editor who took...Communist reins ... |
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Ex-Communists gain as factor in Polish vote
...momentum is the former Communists...published last weekend here...the former Communists, combined...the former Communists coincides...senior ex-Communist Polish ... |
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Ex-Communists Gain Momentum in Poland; As Election Nears, Government...
...side is the former Communists...the former Communists and their...the former Communists, combined...the former Communists coincides...the former Communist ... |
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SOLIDARITY CHIEF WALESA POSTPONES TRIP TO NWI
...Walesa, former president...fledgling Polish Studies Center...6858. Mieczyslaw Rakowski, the last Communist Party prime minister and last Communist first ... |
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Obituaries in the news
Mieczyslaw Rakowski WARSAW, Poland (AP) _ Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poland's last communist-era party chairman and prime minister, died Friday, Polish media and ... |
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Communists Form New Polish Party; Reformer Creates Breakaway Unit
...reviewing the Communist holdings...democrats out of communists overnight...referring to the Communist crackdown...legalized again last year. He...Party chief Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski had hoped...would abandon ... |
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