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...provided Soviet bloc agents with a flow of NATO secrets for a decade or more. Although retired since September 1985, Conrad apparently recruited helpers. As recently as last month, while under surveillance, he turned material over to his Soviet bloc handlers in Vienna. Swedish officials also arrested two former Hungarian nationals who allegedly served as couriers for the network, and dozens of interrogations are still under...
This close family life is precious to Bennett, a Catholic whose parents divorced 40 years ago, when pious folk did not. His mother, who disliked the rich and called the family "us common folk," moved Bill, an older brother Bob and their Hungarian grandmother from Brooklyn to Washington. There, Bennett flourished at Gonzaga High, a Jesuit school. "The only guy in the honors class to be starting on the football team," he brags. But he chafed under the discipline of the fathers. "They regarded me as a smarty-pants, and they were absolutely right," he says...
...offer sanctuary to citizens of a Communist ally. Since January more than 4,500 Rumanians have received permission to settle in Hungary, and officials predict that the number will swell to at least 12,000 by year's end. Virtually all the newcomers belong to the large ethnic Hungarian minority (more than 1.7 million) that lives in the western Rumanian region of Transylvania. The immigrants complain that ethnic Hungarians are the victims of official discrimination. Hungarian authorities agree: in April, Budapest protested a new Rumanian program to uproot hundreds of ethnic Hungarian villagers in Transylvania as a deliberate policy...
Hungary and Rumania were never very neighborly, but relations have worsened since 1974, when Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu launched a nationalistic campaign to distract Rumanians from economic problems. As Rumanian authorities closed Hungarian-language schools in Transylvania, changed Hungarian place names to Rumanian ones, and forcibly relocated families, Hungarian diplomats quietly attempted to intervene...
...growing number of ordinary Hungarians, one-third of whom have relatives in Transylvania, called for more decisive action. With the approval of reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev, Budapest endorsed vitriolic attacks on the Ceausescu regime in the semi-official press. In January the Hungarian government legalized the status of the refugees already spilling across the border; two months later parliament voted $6 million to pay for resettlement programs in cooperation with church groups and the Hungarian Red Cross...