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...irony of Communism's penchant for self-inflicted violence extends in less spectacular but more persistent form to Europe. The only military operations that Soviet forces have actually carried out on the Continent since the Warsaw Pact was formed 26 years ago have been to crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring in 1968. Today a considerable portion of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and contingency planning is focused on Poland-the country where the treaty creating the alliance was signed. If Polish troops cannot stabilize the situation, their allies may move in to help. While...
...just one day, Begin had rammed through a legislative measure that normally would have required at least three days of deliberation. He had opportunistically decided to use events in Poland, which preoccupied Washington, as a cloak for his action, in much the same way that in 1956 the Hungarian crisis offered Israel a convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit...
...story reveals a roughly even split between cat defenders and detractors. "Cats are more photogenic than dogs," says Photographer Neil Leifer, who took the cover photo and five other pictures for the story, "but I'm much more a dog person." Leifer owns two dogs, a Hungarian sheep dog and a golden retriever, and has no plans to inflict a cat on them. Rosemarie Tauris, one of the story's reporter-researchers, has no pets at present, but once was the happy owner of an alley cat named Fritz. She confesses to "a love for the cuddliness...
Worldwide sales of the original Rubik's Cube, the six-sided brainteaser invented by ErnÖ Rubik, a Hungarian professor of architecture, have now passed the 10 million mark. Moreover, the perplexing puzzle has spawned a bountiful and profitable array of sequels, spin-offs and solution manuals that is turning into a minor industry...
...Britain, for example, the royal wedding inspired an imitation cube that shows the Union Jack on four sides and the likenesses of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, on the other two. Because of its pictures, the royal cube is even tougher to solve than its Hungarian predecessor. While Rubik's Cube has a mere 43.2 quintillion (432 followed by 17 zeros) possible arrangements, the new British version has 88.6 sextillion (886 followed by 20 zeros) permutations...