Word: budapester
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...factor that may work in Dubček's favor developed last week in Budapest, where Soviet party leaders reluctantly agreed to postpone the worldwide Communist Party conference scheduled for next month. The reason was all too obvious: Moscow's treatment of Czechoslovakia had infuriated a large number of the prospective delegates. Only last spring, Soviet delegates had enough clout in Budapest to win approval of the summit. Now, led by the Italians, Dubček sympathizers threatened to put Moscow on trial at the summit-and the Kremlin was not ready to submit to that...
...loyalty of a star-crossed Desdemona. When Jefferson is convicted of a Mann Act charge, he jumps bail and flees to Europe. A hounded exile, he drifts from country to country, reaching a kind of symbolic degradation when he shuffles through the role of Uncle Tom in a Budapest cafe and is booed. Still, he rejects a standing offer to throw the championship fight in return for the commutation of his jail sentence. Broody, badgered and in a kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws...
...same time as the Moscow demonstration was going on, W.R.I, teams in Warsaw, Sofia and Budapest went into action. All the protesters were arrested as they handed out their leaflets. In Moscow, Miss Rovere and Papworth were questioned for more than five hours, then deported unceremoniously to London next morning. Poland expelled its five Danes almost as quickly. But Hungary and Bulgaria were not so hasty. At week's end, however, the Bulgarian government released the four Italian youths who had demonstrated in Sofia, and Hungary freed its five protesters, including Robert Eaton, 24, of Philadelphia. Were the demonstrations...
There has been no formal charge or indictment yet, the official said. The American Embassy in Budapest is in touch with Miss Blueye's lawyer and with the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he added. The American Consul saw Miss Blueye on September 18, and reported that she seemed in good spirits, and that she was being treated well...
Postcards were received from Miss Blueye in Budapest on August 10 and August 17 by Radcliffe friends, according to Elizabeth Platt, resident of Jordan W where Miss Blueye lives at Radcliffe. Neither card mentioned any disturbance. There have been no further communications...