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Indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week: 14 officials and staff members of the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by obtaining the services of the National Labor Relations Board without lawfully qualifying the union for those services, i.e., some had "pretended" to resign from the Communist Party and had filed false non-Communist affidavits with the NLRB. Among the indicted: "Mine-Mill's'' eye-patched onetime President Maurice E. Travis. 46. already under an eight-year federal sentence (and free...
Laszlo told of how the students of Sopron organized a non-Communist youth group with himself as president and voted to take up arms for the country's independence. Police and army commanders willingly gave the students arms, Laszlo recounted, and fought against the secret police, who put up the real resistance early in the Revolution...
...Budapest, but from Hungary. Thus he called in Soviet Ambassador Yuri Andropov, renounced Hungary's membership in the Warsaw Pact, and put his case to the United Nations. His first Cabinet was made up of Communists, with four exceptions. At week's end there were only three Communists, including himself, in the government; the Cabinet portfolios were distributed among three non-Communist parties, with General Pal Maleter in the key post of Defense Minister...
...cannot fight for long against an organized army. Thousands of Hungarians would be dead or seriously wounded. But what mattered to Hungary as a nation was that her Soviet overlords had been forced to dissolve their all-Communist government and set up in its place a government that included non-Communist elements. The Soviet leaders might later attempt to hedge on this concession, but the fact was that they had made it in front of the whole world. This was the first time in their history that the Soviet leaders had done this, and the implications of their act went...
...economic troubles are mainly homemade. Citizens complain about the ineffectuality of the nine-man governing council, sign petitions for a return to the presidential system. Disappointment at the red-ink record of the government in business is widespread. Says Juan Antonio Acuna, head of Uruguay's No. 1 non-Communist labor federation: "We are terrified when the state considers nationalizing another industry...