Word: hungarian
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...scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate...
...Hungarian Game, Hayes...
...waiting was in vain. Neither the former Attorney General, who rarely shows emotion and seldom talks to the press at even the best of times, nor his once effervescent wife emerged. Their chief contact with the outside world was a former Hungarian freedom fighter who serves as their general aide-de camp and chauffeur. From time to time, he would run an errand or escort the Mitchells' daughter Marty to her private Catholic school...
...their air force. The Russians have dragged their feet at the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks now going on in Vienna. Only after the West reluctantly agreed to accept Hungary's observer status at the talks, effectively removing from the negotiations the 40,000 Soviet troops on Hungarian soil, was work on the agenda begun. Nixon needs some kind of reciprocal withdrawal by the Russians to hold off congressional demands for a unilateral cutback of the 300,000 U.S. forces in Europe. Brezhnev is well aware of these pressures, which suggests that he is unlikely to be conciliatory...
...gone home, prisoners have been exchanged, and Viet Cong officers-escorted always by South Vietnamese security troops-drive around Saigon. There is also the ineffectual presence of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), created to monitor the adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced that Canada would quit the paralyzed, dissension-torn ICCS...