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...cloud hung over the agony of Budapest-part fog, part gun smoke, part dust. It muffled the thump of mortars and draped the spires of shattered cathedrals in dark, chilly folds. For miles around, the snow was black with soot. Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; and in the morning the dead in the streets glittered. Under the cloud and over the dead raged one of World War II's grimmest street battles. By the time the Red Army had cleared the city's 4,500 blocks of their stubborn German defenders, Budapest was a surrealist's nightmare...
Lipkowski felt that to prevent the takeover of Europe by a conventional attack, Europe must be able to threaten her own nuclear retaliation: "Do you believe Russia would have launched an attack on Budapest if the Hungarians had even a few planes with atomic bombs...
...Budapest Hilton? De Gaulle's freewheeling maneuvers are essentially the result of the growing break in the 18-year logjam of the cold war. Washington and Moscow have been moving cautiously toward détente ever since the confrontation of Cuba (where De Gaulle promptly pledged allegiance to the U.S.), encouraging greater independence not only by France in the West but by the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are asserting an astonishing independence of Russia. Communist Hungary even boasts it will soon have a Budapest Hilton...
Many Communist regimes are hungry enough for hard Western currency to relax travel restrictions and look the other way when East and West Berlin families gather for reunions counter to East German rules. When the night train from East Berlin pulls into Budapest's Keleti Talyaudvar (East Station), the platform scenes are moving replays of those that took place over the Christmas holidays in Berlin itself. Sweethearts fall into soundless clinches; old people weep as they see their grandchildren for the first time...
...Lake. Berliners get together everywhere from the sunny Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria and Rumania to the forested Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia. But the favorite rendezvous is Hungary's Lake Balaton, a narrow, 48-mile-long "inland sea" just 56 miles from Budapest. A renowned Central European watering spot since the days of the Romans, Balaton is a pleasant place to visit even without the added incentive of reunion. Its delicate wines-such as the Badacsony szurke barat (Grey Friar)-are eminently sippable, and the shallow, turquoise-blue lake, ringed with breezy cafes and villas, has a bright, Mediterranean...