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...vivid. It was here; on his thirteenth birthday, that he was bar mitzvahed in a shabby synagogue in full sight of the pacing Nazi guards. It was here that he first met Ben, the lifelong friend who accompanied him through the camps and with whom he made a solemn pact to survive. And it was here that his father kissed the family goodbye and left home for the last time. A few months later, the ghetto was razed and those who survived were put on a train for the camps...
...professor of history at Brooklyn College, saw another side of Andropov during the 1956 Hungarian uprising. On Nov. 2, the day after Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy announced his government's intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact, Király was sent to the Soviet embassy to check out a protest from Andropov that "Hungarian hooligans" had besieged the diplomatic compound. In the growing tension, the Nagy government feared that the Soviets might use any incident to send in troops. When Király arrived with a security unit to be sure the Soviet embassy was not being besieged...
...Warsaw Pact has a numerical edge over NATO in various categories of weaponry, but the very name of that alliance ought to serve as a reminder of one of its fundamental weaknesses: the Soviet Union is heavily reliant on Poland and other resentful, potentially mutinous satellites for supply lines and soldiers. Moreover, 49 divisions totaling more than 500,000 troops, nearly a quarter of the Soviet army, are tied down on the Chinese border. When Brezhnev took over from Khrushchev, there were only 17 divisions in the Far East...
...foreign ministers meet next month to plan a joint commission that would promote trade, cultural exchange, communications and travel between the two countries. The commission would also try to accelerate the 14-month-old talks, being held at and below the foreign ministers' level, on the no-war pact that Pakistan has proposed. While denying aggressive intentions, the two countries are on the threshold of a fierce arms race. India has ordered 40 of France's most advanced jet fighter, the Mirage 2000; Pakistan is about to receive the same number of F-16s from...
...quotes from his diary an entry just after the historic pact had been struck...