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...Europe that is more united and to assure the Europeans that their security is, to us, our own security." At the end of the day, the American party will split up. Secretary of State Vance, accompanied by a delegation of Senators and Congressmen, is scheduled to head for Budapest, where he will return to Hungarian officials the thousand-year-old Crown of St. Stephen, which has been in U.S. hands since the end of World War II. Carter meanwhile will leave for home...
...great blunder committed by President Carter," protested Polish-Hungarian World Federation President Karol Ripa. These-and worse-outcries, along with demonstrations at the White House gates, were raised again last week by Hungarian-Americans at Carter's decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Budapest. The legendary symbol of Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year 1000. It has been stored at Fort Knox...
...Case Worker (1974), Hungarian Novelist and Sociologist George Konrád examined a day in the life of a state welfare worker in Budapest. As a catalogue of human detritus, the novel was both powerful and disturbing; in its rapid-fire vignettes and tortured ruminations, it strained toward poetry. Konrád was justifiably praised as a promising new international voice and as something even more rare-a sociologist who can write...
This weekend, under the spotlights at Watson Rink, Christina Regoczy and Andras Sallay, three-time Hungarian Ice Dancing Champions, will show the crowds at the Jimmy Fund Show what ice dancing is all about. The pair have traveled from Budapest to take part in the eighth annual "An Evening With Champions," and they bring with them a wealth of talent and a unique relationship...
...When we get the music, we listen to it maybe a hundred times," says Regoczy, who is a second-year student at a Budapest medical university. "Then we frame out what we want to do and try to do it all out on the ice. Once we have a frame, we break it down into maybe five-second segments and really dress everything...