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...failed to print a summary of the weekly meeting of the ruling Politburo, as has been the custom recently, a possible indication that the gathering had been called off. But it was only after Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov returned to Moscow after an unusually short, 24-hour visit to Budapest last week that the speculation began in earnest...
...Born in Budapest of middle-class Jewish parents, Koestler was a lonely, neurotic child brought up by a possessive and angry mother and strict, punishing household help. He was subject to suicidal depression, homicidal rage and "obsession with a cause." His first obsession was Zionism, a movement that seized his imagination when he at tended the Vienna Polytechnic in the early 1920s...
After Poland's debt crisis flared in 1981, Western banks pulled out money that they had on deposit in Eastern Europe. Now the National Savings Bank in Budapest intends to get some of that cash back. Its strategy: to compete with the fabled Swiss banking gnomes for Western customers who want to hide their hoards. Switzerland last year became less of a haven because the government loosened its secrecy laws to allow banks, in some cases, to reveal information on accounts held by suspected criminals. The Hungarians, however, promise absolute confidentiality. Moreover, the bank pays 13.5% interest...
...High school. Don't Be Cruel and Tutti Frutti. Philip Morris cigarettes. Fast times and slow dancing. Rebels without cause. Budapest. (Huh?) It would seem that what Jean-Luc Godard called the Coca-Colonization of Europe made an early conquest of Eastern Europe too, worming not just into jeans but into dreams. The ecstasy of fear flashes on a teen-ager's face as he dares to sass a sadistic teacher, and one can trace the punk-heroic contours of James Dean. Seven years after the Soviet-crushed revolution, Hungarian youths want only to escape...
Konrád's sweetness of manner and luminous smile belie the visions of violence that invaded his childhood and have informed his fiction. The son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he was eleven years old when his parents were arrested under the Nazi occupation. The boy fled to Budapest and hid with other Jews in a house that was under the protection of a foreign embassy. The young fugitive scrounged for dry beans and moldy sausage. Searching for a relative in a ghetto hospital, he came upon a mountain of bodies that had been machine-gunned by Hungarian Nazis...