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...example of that leverage came at last month's Warsaw Pact Conference in Budapest, when Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu refused Soviet demands to condemn China for the border troubles. Exploded Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev: "You are as bad as the bastard Hoxha [the pro-Peking party boss of Albania]!" By the same token, the Rumanian, Hungarian and Czechoslovak parties are likely to assert their independence at the planned Moscow meeting by attempting to block any Soviet plan to excommunicate the Chinese from the world Communist movement...
...that the Budapest String Quartet has retired, who takes its place as the world's master of chamber music...
...first-rate group like the Juilliard has proved that American string players are the equal of any produced out of the classic European mold. Yet, in the minds of many chamber music connoisseurs, another group comes even closer to the elegant perfection of the old Budapest: the Guarneri String Quartet, which made its New York debut...
That Yellow Gang. Echoes of the clash reached Eastern Europe last week. In Budapest, at the first full-dress Warsaw Pact meeting since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, a high-powered Soviet delegation led by Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev pressed their allies to sign an already prepared document condemning the Chinese. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu refused, standing his ground in the face of Brezhnev's charges that he was "taking the side of that yellow gang." The meeting's official session, in fact, lasted only two hours, the shortest on record...
There, photographed in a sober row at the Budapest meeting of the Warsaw Pact members, were the familiar faces of Russia's leaders: Grechko, Kosygin, Brezhnev, Gromyko, Katushev. Katushev? Neither the face nor the name was familiar. Both are likely to become more so, however, as time goes on. Konstantin Katushev is Moscow's new man around town, and his swift ascent to power has surprised even Kremlinologists. A year ago, Katushev, a stern-visaged man with a barrel chest, was an insignificant regional party secretary, one of more than a hundred such factotums scattered throughout Russia. Today...