Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America like a monster." Bosch conceded that "a few Communists" might be fighting on his side, but insisted that his supporters were in complete command of the rebels. In reply, the State Department released a list of 58 Communist agitators, many of them graduates of Red Chinese and Czechoslovakian political warfare schools, who were leading the street fighting. Some of the leaders: Jaime Durán, a Cuban-trained member of the Dominican Young Communists' Party; José D. Issa, a Communist who received guerrilla training in Cuba, visited Prague in 1963, Moscow in 1964; Fidelio Despradel Roques...
...continue to thrive in exile. A Spanish government in exile with representatives in a number of countries, as well as smaller Basque and Catalan groups, maintain head-quarters in Paris. The Mecca of Spanish exiles in Latin America is Mexico, which has never recognized Franco's government. In addition, Czechoslovakian Radio Pirane beams programs into Spain on a regular basis and El Mundo Obrero, the organ of the Spanish Communist Party, appears mysteriously in Madrid from time to time...
...many Hungarians flocked to Czechoslovakia to buy lingerie and razor blades, which were almost unattainable in Hungary, that the Czech government was forced to slap spending restrictions on the Hungarians to prevent a shortage of the same items in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakian retailers last year had to return nearly $70 million worth of goods that their customers did not need and would not buy, while neighboring Poland overproduced 9,000 washing machines even though retailers clamored for scarce enamel pots. Queues even form for vegetables in rich Bulgarian farming country because bureaucrats have not received orders to disburse their produce...
...Hello, late workers," reads the cheery newspaper ad. "Are you usually late for work, appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch." And if timing is no problem, how about Chinese or Czechoslovakian sewing machines, glassware, pots and pans, brushes, cut-rate food items? In British Guiana's capital of Georgetown, Gimpex, short for Guiana Import-Export Corp., offers them all. The company is the colony's biggest importer of Communist goods, and Marxist Premier Cheddi lagan's lifeline to the Red world...
...Conspirators. After a while, Lopez came to know another park visitor who liked to feed the ducks, an elderly, Czechoslovakian-born widow named Venceslava Hanush. When Mrs. Hanush heard people at the park say that the sick or crippled ducks were going to be fed to animals at the city zoo, Lopez decided to take direct action. An old acquaintance who owns a ranch in Southern California promised to provide a home for the ducks. Lopez and Mrs. Hanush worked up a plan to gather up young or ailing ducks and transport them to the ranch. To help carry...