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...interview, reprinted from the Hungarian trade-union newspaper Nepszava, Deputy Foreign Minister Istvan Roska noted that there were some differences between Warsaw Pact members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
...Nepszava, trade union newspaper, pleaded that the general pardon, now extended by Defense Minister Karoly Janza to all who capitulated, be extended to "Soviet soldiers who had come over to the people"-indicating where the Soviet leaders' fundamental weakness might...
...Budapest's Nepszava, an editorial writer summed it all up: "Wisdom . . . Greatness . . . Love of Life . . . Love of Humanity . . . What is perseverance? What is courage? Those questions are answered in the example of Comrade Rakosi's life...
Bourgeois Weakness. In Budapest, Hungary, after two factory nursery-school directors tried to buy chamber pots at a government store and were told that only unsuitable Japanese flower vases would be available until next year, the trade-union paper Nepszava angrily commented: "The small children of the nursery are in no position at all to wait until January for the pots...
...Nepszava's own improvisation on what happened:"The Washington Concert Hall was filled with . . . acrid, choking smoke. The public bolted for the exits, the musicians threw away their instruments and Mitchell, the bold and path-breaking composer with the true American spirit, groped on the floor in complete darkness, coughing and spitting with tear-filled eyes-he was trying to find the baton he had dropped...