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...volunteers from Russia and Eastern Europe at work. Last week it announced that it will raise its strength to 2,500 (v. the U.S. Peace Corps' 14,000). The boss of the Red Peace Corps is Bulgarian Ivan Ganev, who runs the outfit from a crumbling villa in Budapest...
After the crushing of Hungary's anti-Russian revolt eleven years ago, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty took refuge in the U.S. mission in Budapest, where he has lived ever since. Last week Budapest buzzed with rumors that Mindszenty, now 75, was about to abandon his self-chosen prison. Lending weight to the reports, Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König flew to Budapest for his fourth visit to Mindszenty this year. Yet at week's end König had again left the country-alone...
...hair, sufficiently feminine to attract plenty of male dancing partners in Warsaw night spots. When she cropped her hair recently she looked a bit less feminine, but after the International Amateur Athletic Federation ordered sex tests for female athletes, she paraded naked before three women doctors last year in Budapest and was passed as a woman without question...
...called "progressive" intellectuals scarcely deserve the name intellectual, thinks Tibor Szamuely, onetime history professor at Budapest University I and now a political lecturer at the University of Reading. Their involvement in politics, he writes, is "fundamentally nonintellectual. It is practically impossible to carry on a rational argument about Viet Nam, to hear a case against U.S. policy made in coherent, analytical, factual terms. Secure under the protection of U.S. firepower-and knowing this, and hating himself for knowing it-the intellectual cries out for more stories of American atrocities...
...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...