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...presenting ethnics with as attractive an alternative as possible. It cranks out news releases for some 600 ethnic newspapers around the U.S. Whenever possible, the releases are in English. "We want to unite, we don't want to divide," says Laszlo Pasztor, the council director and a Hungarian freedom fighter who fled to the U.S. when the Soviets invaded in 1956. "The English language is a strong, binding force." Nevertheless, translation is provided for any nationality that would rather have its politics in its native tongue. There is also an ample collection of foreign-language tapes and records, which...
...Olympiad, which begins on Aug. 26, is not likely to prove an exception. Bickering among officials has almost become a separate Olympic event. Squabbles among competitors are less common, though sometimes more dramatic. At Melbourne in 1956, for example, a water-polo match turned into a miniature of the Hungarian Revolution. The Hungarian team beat the Russians in a brutal contest for the gold medal that left the green pool streaked with blood...
Swimming, a traditional source of superstars, is the first major sport on this year's Olympic schedule. The first aquatic gold medalist was a Hungarian, Alfred Hajos, who won the only two swimming events at Athens in 1896. Both were held in the open sea, amid chilling waves as high as 12 ft. Said Hajos, in one of the franker Olympic victory statements: "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win." This year an American, an Australian and an East German all have a chance to emerge from the magnificent Munich pool as the greatest star...
...playing of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies (Nos. 12 and 17) was startling--without a trace of the vulgarity usually read into this composer's works. One might argue for a "grander" rendition of no. 12, although I was quite satisfied to hear, for once, the purely musical aspects of Liszt. The absence of ostentation was particularly appropriate in the more austere, tonally ambiguous seventeenth Rhapsody, in which it is evident, contrary to popular notion, what a serious composer Liszt often...
Flying into Budapest in the course of an 18-day, ten-nation swing through Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers prepared for a meeting with Hungarian Party Boss Janos Kadar that briefers advised him would be courteous but cool. Instead, Rogers found that the Hungarians had literally and figuratively rolled out a red carpet for him. In a 75-minute session (it was scheduled for only a half-hour), Rogers and Kadar explored the prospects of increased trade and technological support for a Communist country whose relations with the U.S. since. World...