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...reforms, including the return to power of a moderate Communist leader, Imre Nagy. Party Secretary Erno Gero scornfully rejected their pleas and called them "enemies of the people." The demonstrators then paraded to the main broadcasting station to put their case on the air. Security police opened fire, but Hungarian army reinforcements balked...
...into Budapest. Soviet commanders claimed they were doing so at the request of Kadar, who was actually hiding in a Soviet command post outside the city. Nagy took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy but was later lured out, seized and hanged. After about a month of sporadic fighting, the Hungarian revolt was liquidated...
...them to satellites once again, but they are nervously aware that the Soviet army has not yet gone home. There are 360,000 Soviet troops in Germany, 50,000 in Poland, 15,000 in Czechoslovakia and 20,000 in Hungary. "They might decide to 'reinforce' them," frets a senior Hungarian diplomat. Last week Warsaw anxiously asked Moscow to pull its forces out by the end of this year, but the Kremlin balked, saying the forces must remain until its troops in Germany have returned home. The Czechoslovak government ordered 20,000 troops to its border with the Soviet Union...
...economy forces women to hold full-time jobs as well as running the household. This double burden is almost unbearable, especially since the time-saving technology we are accustomed to in the West--including clothes dryers, microwave ovens and dishwashers--is not available or are not affordable for most Hungarian families...
...face the social stigma of divorce. Not only are divorced women left with unequal responsibility for raising their children, but they also face a marginal social life and a small chance for remarriage. The prevalence of divorce (the rate is 50 percent) does not reduce the "tainted" image of Hungarian divorcees. Both unmarried and divorced men crave young, virginal wives and think themselves failures if they don't succeed in acquiring...