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1966
- April
- Kadar speech at the Soviet 23d Party Congress endorses Soviet policies, blasts Chinese and Albanians.
- May
- Party Central Committee approves resolution on economic reforms to be implemented between 1968 and 1970; Party Secretary Nyers announces that political reforms will be considered by Ninth Party Congress in November.
- November-December
- Ninth Congress of Hungarian Socialist Workers Party is held in Budapest; Central Committee powers are increased; Central Auditing Committee and candidate membership in the party and Central Committee are abolished.
1967
- April
- Government changes are announced; Jeno Fock replaces Gyula Kallai as Premier as economic experts move into top government positions.
- May
- Regime organizes destructive anti-Vietnam demonstrations at U.S. Embassy in Budapest.
- July
- Hungary hosts Communist summit discussions of support for Arabs.
- September
- Hungarian-Soviet treaty of mutual aid and friendship is renewed.
- November
- U.S. Ambassador presents credentials in Budapest, completing U.S. side of 1966 agreement to upgrade diplomatic representative to the ambassadorial level.
1968
- January
- Hungary's economic reform (New Economic Mechanism) is inaugurated.
- February
- Hungary hosts preparatory session for the World Communist Conference.
- March
- Premier Jeno Fock pays state visit to France.
- April
- Party daily announces support for Czechoslovakia's de-Stalinization campaign.
- June
- Debate in Secretariat over continued support of Czechoslovaks is settled in favor of continued support.
- July
- Kadar argues for moderate course at Warsaw meeting of hardline regimes alarmed at developments in Czechoslovakia. Kadar signs joint letter to Dubcek regime warning of excesses.
- August
- Kadar meets Dubcek on 18 August in last-ditch attempt to counsel gradualism and is rebuffed. Kadar joins hardliners in sending troops into Czechoslovakia on 20 August.
- September
- Hungarian leaders publicly reassert their intention to continue gradual domestic reforms in Hungary.
- Hungarian ambassador to United States arrives in Washington.
1969
- March
- Joint party-government meeting extends Kadar's gradual reform policies.
- Writers Union Congress marks rapprochement between Kadar regime and liberal authors who join regime organization.
1970
- January
- Minister of Interior Andras Benkei calls for reforms limiting powers of secret police.
- November
- Tenth Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party is held in Budapest. Kadar wins low-keyed endorsement of domestic reforms and silences critics who disturbed preparations for the congress with complaints about effects of internal liberalization. Brezhnev attends congress and gives Kadar a general—but vague—endorsement.
1971
- February
- Matyas Rákosi, Stalinist party boss of the 1950's, dies in exile in the U.S.S.R.
- May
- National elections are held. As first test of new election reform, elections prove to be generally disappointing in extending limits of popular choice and participation.
- July
- Hungary joins in Warsaw Pact polemics against Romania, Yugoslavia, and Albania for their ties with China. Hungarian-Romanian rapprochement is temporarily halted as a result.
- September
- Cardinal Mindszenty leaves refuge in U.S. Embassy, Budapest, for residence in Vienna.
1972
- February
- Economic and political differences with Soviet Union surface. Kadar and Fock go to Moscow in February and March to smooth over problems.
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