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...come over? Personal considerations-his wife had been ill for some time-unquestionably played a part. But another reason he gave U.S. authorities was his country's hardening attitude toward the American position in Viet Nam. Though Hungarian diplomats had played a key role in a short-lived effort to bring Hanoi and Washington together before and during the 1966 bombing pause, Budapest gave up all efforts to effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly...
...Though a Rumanian minister and another Hungarian head of mission defected to the U.S. in the '40s, neither was as high in his own government as Radványi, who held the coveted rank of career ambassador...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "A Mother for Janek." dramatizes the story of a boy orphaned during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and sent to the U.S. to live...
...Leftists often act as if they had no memory and had read no history; they seem unaware of the Communist-organized rebellions in Greece and Malaya, the invasion of South Korea, the repression of the Hungarian uprising, the Berlin Wall. While they are theoretically opposed to any dictatorship they endlessly make allowances for Communist regimes; they feel outraged by U.S. leaders while either apologizing for or extolling Castro and Mao, and of course they want instant, unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, heedless of the consequences. "We refuse to be anti-Communist," declared Lynd and Hayden in a statement written...
Fock's accession was part of a shake-up in the Hungarian Cabinet that also saw the replacement of President István Dobi by Pál Losonczi, a farming expert who has served as Hungary's Minister of Agriculture since 1960. Both appointments reflect the desire of Party Boss János Kádár, the country's real ruler, to strengthen his own position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years...