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...General Pal Maleter, hero of the Kilian Barracks fighting against the Russians and Nagy's Defense Minister until the Soviets tricked him into a meeting, captured and imprisoned him. Although Budapest sources deny the persistent reports that Maleter is being or has been tried, no one doubts that the trial is coming...
When Ferenc went out to Kilian barracks to get a rifle, he was told that it was more important for him to record what was going on in film. The director of his film company refused to give him a camera and film, but Ferenc broke into the warehouse, commandeered both. From then on, until Nov. 3, he and his cameraman recorded the battle. He took pictures everywhere, in the streets, from the cellars, from speeding vehicles...
...Kilian barracks there was such a big crowd that Peter was about to quit and go home when someone called for a truck driver, and he came forward. Peter drove "a tall colonel who seemed to be in charge" to an arms depot, called the Lamp Factory, where they loaded cases of rifles and machine guns. The revolutionary fever caught Peter up at this point, and he was swept into the battle for Radio Budapest, shooting from the rooftops...
...morale at the barracks was skyhigh. When citizens called up to report the presence of Russian tanks or the whereabouts of the AVH, the Freedom Fighters forayed out to do battle. A week later the Soviet army returned in strength and tried to blast the Freedom Fighters out of Kilian barracks. Peter Szanto was one of the last to leave. He came out through a hole in the back wall after a delegation of local people had pleaded with the Fighters to stop the battle because the neighborhood was in ruins. When he reached home, Peter learned that...
...star-tied shepherds on the hillside looking up, awestruck, to a bright cloud in which floats a bevy of willowy women, winged, golden-haired and equipped with elongated trumpets. These, naturally, are angels. Or are they? In the current issue of the Roman Catholic monthly The Sign, Benedictine Father Kilian McDonnell vehemently protests against these treacly travesties-the reason, he says, that no one takes angels seriously any more...