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Though the U.S. Government knows little about the state of the hostages, and is saying even less, there are fears that some of the Americans may have already been broken by the experience and could denounce the U.S. at a staged spy trial. Charles Fenyvesi, one of the Hanafi hostages in 1977, writes in the New Republic that "had the siege gone on much longer, some of us would have broken down, one way or another. I shudder to think what more than 30 days of captivity might have done...
...decided to barricade ourselves in one of the eighth-floor offices. We shoved the desk in front of the door, but they started beating the door down. We opened it up, and standing there were three gunmen. My boss, Charles Fenyvesi, who was captured by the Germans as a child and then caught by the Russians during the Hungarian uprising [of 1956], asked them what they wanted. One gunman-they called themselves 'soldiers'-hit him with his hand. Charles fell and his glasses went flying. I don't think he ever got them back...
...officers of the HFC are: President, Charles T. Fenyvesi '60, of Kirkland House and Silver Springs, Md., and secretary, Arnold Gilbert '60, of Lowell House and Washington...
...students saw or were seen by the World University Service, which served as the liaison between them and universities which were becoming interested in offering scholarships to Hungarian students. Heimler and Fenyvesi were offered scholarships by Kirkland House, which raised $1200 for Heimler, and received an anonymous scholarships, which it gave to Charles...
...they choose Harvard? "A degree at Harvard would really be a great thing," Julius says, while Fenyvesi became convinced of the University's excellence after he visited Cambridge last spring. After he was here one day, he "learned to like Harvard and hate Yale, to like the CRIMSON and hate the Lampoon." He felt at first that Harvard might be too far away--"every Hungarian has the feeling that to go too far away is not good. We are a little country," he explains...