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...steer away from signs and symbols that might recall the darkest period of the continent's history. But Hungary's Jobbik - its name derives from job, a word meaning "right" or "better" - garnered 14.8% of the votes in the country's European elections with a campaign themed around the Arpad stripes, the nationalist flag that was co-opted by Hungarian fascists in the 1930s and 1940s. The party's chairman, Gabor Vona, 30, also chaired the Magyar Garda - or Hungarian Guard - a private militia that appeared at Jobbik rallies and marched through scores of Hungarian villages as part...
...than U.S. intelligence reports. (Subsequently, U.S. intelligence officials discovered that the Argentines had been planning the operation in strict secrecy for two months.) With the information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...
...governing coalition regard the restitution of the castle as compensation for the injustice that the Habsburg family suffered under the communists and see the Parliament's demand to nullify the restitution as a relapse into the communist era: "This decision is an embarrassment for the Romanian Parliament," Marton Arpad, MP for the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) told TIME: "We fought 17 years to get away from Communism, now we seem to be going straight back." He called the vote in parliament a "violation of the constitution that will set Romania back years...
...Bungee in William Finn’s “A New Brain,” Lewis in “Pippin,” Herold in “Assassins,” Walter in “Chess,” and his most recent musical role, Arpad in “She Loves...
...Bungee in William Finn’s “A New Brain,” Lewis in “Pippin,” Herold in “Assassins,” Walter in “Chess,” and his most recent musical role, Arpad in “She Loves...