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...instrumental in getting both countries to agree to elevate their legations to embassies. The State Department knew in January of Radványi's promotion from chargé d'affaires to ambassador, one of his fondest dreams; Washington had only to announce its own ambassadorial appointment to Budapest to make it official...
...called his office to say that he planned to take a few days off. Next he called "American authorities"-most likely his old friend Dean Rusk-to ask asylum for himself, his wife Julianna and their son János, 15. When his housekeeper, a watchdog assigned by Budapest, returned to the Radványis' house at 2838 Arizona Avenue, N.W., from a shopping trip the following afternoon, the three occupants had disappeared with their possessions and left no forwarding address (they went to a suburban hideout). Forty-five minutes later, the State Department made its laconic statement...
...part. But another reason he gave U.S. authorities was his country's hardening attitude toward the American position in Viet Nam. Though Hungarian diplomats had played a key role in a short-lived effort to bring Hanoi and Washington together before and during the 1966 bombing pause, Budapest gave up all efforts to effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly-and, in the end, irrevocably-frustrated by his government's instructions, and opted for American citizenship rather than...
EASTERN EUROPE is at last beginning to grab its share of the tourist business. Budapest's reputation as a swinging capital has penetrated the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia offers a Mozart festival, and of late has become downright comradely toward tourists. Says Harvard Square Travel Agent Vladimir Kazan, a Czech-born American citizen who was once jailed in Prague: "From my cellmates, I understand the country is cultivating good restaurants, picturesque cities and reasonably good hotels. I hear they're really catering to Americans." Despite his own unhappy experience, Kazan heartily recommends a visit. Soviet Russia, this year celebrating...
...usual, Hungarian plainclothesmen were waiting outside the U.S. legation in Budapest on the remote chance that the old man might emerge. There was no chance at all. Inside, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty thanked the legation staff for a bouquet of red and white carnations that celebrated his 75th birthday, stared briefly from his window at the Soviet war memorial in "Freedom Square" below, and continued the political exile that began during the uprising of 1956. The Hungarians have offered him amnesty, but Mindszenty refuses to leave his asylum, or his country, until the Communists clear him of the trumped-up charges...