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Fastest Wit. The author is Hungarian-born Shabtai Teveth, 45, a leading Israeli journalist and writer (The Tanks of Tammuz), who had nine lengthy interviews with Dayan. Teveth portrays an earthy, sometimes unpredictable man -and the fastest wit in the Middle East. Stopped on one occasion by a military policeman for driving 75 m.p.h. when the military speed limit was 44 m.p.h., Dayan said with a wry smile: "I have only one eye. What do you want me to watch-the speedometer or the road...
Power Struggle. A Hungarian newspaper recently noted that for the first time since the end of World War II everybody in the Balkans is finally on speaking terms. Still, the terms are by no means always polite. Albania, Peking's principal friend in Europe, is still swapping denunciations with Bulgaria. Sofia and Belgrade are still quarreling over Bulgarian claims to the entire region of Macedonia...
British Impulse. Others sense that new developments, as yet dimly perceived, will make or break Europe's future. One of the optimists is Otto von Habsburg, onetime heir to the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and now a full-time promoter of European unity. "When I was a boy," he says, "the Rhine River represented a dividing line even greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such...
...Bela Kun in 1919. His rise in the Catholic hierarchy was a reward for his unflinching loyalty to the church and the people of Hungary, both of which he defended against a grim succession of political tyrannies. During World War II. he fearlessly denounced the Nazis and aided Hungarian Jews; finally, in 1944, Hungary's Fascist regime imprisoned him. After the war, by then a Cardinal and the nation's highest-ranking bishop. Mindszenty fought the encroachments of Communism, marshaling Catholics in massive demonstrations. His arrest on the day after Christmas in 1948 was hardly a surprise. Then...
...stern face became as familiar an image of those days as the bullet-pocked walls. But then the Soviet tanks swept in, and Mindszenty fled to the safety of the U.S. embassy, where he remained, in effect a prisoner again. "Let him sit there and rot," Hungarian officials told the Americans. "He doesn't inconvenience us and he embarrasses...