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...clearly subordinate to the political arm of the party. A powerfully built man over 6 ft. tall, Andropov proved his ruthlessness in Hungary as ambassador at the time of the 1956 uprising. It was he who encouraged a delegation of Hungarians to meet with top Soviet officers in Budapest to talk about a withdrawal of Russian troops; two days later, when a settlement seemed near, General Ivan Serov, then head of the KGB, burst in on the parley with a platoon of agents and arrested the rebel leaders, many of whom were later executed. In 1967, Andropov became head...
After Brezhnev flew back home via Budapest and Sofia at week's end, the two sides issued a reassuring communiqué about mutual respect and cooperation based on the principle of noninterference. The communiqué also disclosed that Tito has accepted a return invitation from Brezhnev to visit Moscow, but almost certainly not before he comes to the U.S. in late October. While neither side had made any binding promises or dramatic shifts in posture, and while the Yugoslavs clearly had no illusions about the present Soviet leadership's regard for diplomatic niceties, the political atmosphere in Belgrade...
During the London blitz, Barrister Cyril Conner retained a serene confidence in his country's future. It was his daughter's future that concerned him. "Promise me something," he asked the smashing little redhead. "Promise me you'll never marry a saxophonist from Budapest...
Died. Paul Lukas, 76, the durable actor with the Continental mien; of heart disease; in Tangier. "Acting is a Gesell-schaftspiel" declared Budapest-born Lukas. "When I speak lines in a play, I mean them; I am talking to someone. It's all real." Brought to America by Producer Adolph Zukor in 1927, Lukas first appeared on the Hollywood silent screen opposite Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress. He took a recess from films and in 1941 scored his greatest stage triumph portraying Kurt Müller, the dogged anti-Nazi hero of Lillian Hellman's Watch...
...taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou's junket "has an anti-Soviet edge." For the first time, the paper also spoke of a "Tirana-Belgrade-Bucharest" axis...