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...probably not risk pressing immediately for a system of government that would outrage hundreds of thousands of people. The Communists in fact might legitimately fear a reversal of the past 20 years: former Saigon supporters harassing a Communist government much as Communist guerrillas used to harass Saigon. As one Hungarian official of the I.C.C.S. said privately last week, "The imposition of a Communist government in Saigon would mean civil war." A French official in Paris had the same opinion: "Sure the Viet Cong could take Saigon now, but in six months they'd have another civil war on their hands...
...days in March that saw the decline of old hopes and the rise of new dangers. The world had not witnessed such a week of more or less simultaneous shocks since early November 1956, when a British-French-Israeli force was invading Egypt and the Soviets were crushing the Hungarian revolt, or since mid-October 1964, when the Soviet Central Committee deposed Nikita Khrushchev, the Chinese exploded their first atom bomb and Britain elected a Labor government in a remarkable upset...
...easy correspondence between stage and life was never better illustrated than in this failed Hungarian playwright who dreamed of moving characters around on an international stage. Pushed by adoring and wealthy parents, he first affected the manner of an élégant, contributing feuilletons to the European press and plays to the Viennese public. Vienna circa 1890 was his home, at a time when that capital seemed the confluence of all that was worldly and intoxicating. It was also, according to Elon, a Versuchsstation des Weltuntergänges (proving ground of world destruction...
Feral Magnetism. As the Frenchman descended from hero to convict, the Hungarian rose from dilettante to provocateur. Herzl did not invent the idea of a Jewish state-the appeal of Return to Jerusalem is, after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with...
...York investigation centers around Bernard Bergman, 63, a Hungarian-born Manhattan rabbi (without congregation) who is involved in the operation of a disputed number of nursing homes in the area. A series of recent probes made headlines when Andrew Stein, a state assemblyman whose commission on living costs has been studying the nursing-home industry, charged widespread padding of Medicare and Medicaid bills submitted from a number of homes, including Bergman's. According to New York's secretary of state Mario Cuomo, Bergman's homes not only mistreated their patients but defrauded the state of Medicaid funds...