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Because of a State Department rule demanding complete anonymity of ambassadors' writings, The McLandress Affair, published while Galbraith was the U.S. Ambassador to India, was printed under a pseudonym...
Some members will not go even that far. Beneath the New Forum umbrella are half a dozen smaller groups that bear such optimistic names as Democratic Awakening and Movement for Democracy Now. One of them, the United Left, seeks to eliminate the ruling party's Stalinist heritage and to form independent trade unions, but its members are avowed Marxists who fret that any "fundamental opening up of society" could threaten Communist rule. These differences could make consensus difficult if the New Forum attempts to draw up an agenda. For now, the various factions are not inclined even to merge. Says...
...with a gun that made him disappear temporarily. Pelted with questions from skeptics, TASS stood by its story. Said an agency official huffily: "It is not April Fools' today." Sovietskaya Kultura, a Communist Party paper dedicated to the arts, ran the story, claiming it was following "the golden rule of journalism: the reader must know everything...
Such is the pace of political change in Hungary these days that last year's political blasphemy is this week's new truth. In keeping with the wholesale undoing of the past, the ruling party, formerly known as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, is no longer officially Communist. At a five-day congress that ended in Budapest last week, 1,274 delegates voted overwhelmingly to take the Communism out of socialism and become the Hungarian Socialist Party. They also sent hard-line General Secretary Karoly Grosz into political oblivion and repudiated much of four decades of Communist rule, including...
...their even more youthful offspring and thus escape for an hour or so into exceptionally vigorous relaxation. It is my strong impression that their young are free from any serious risk and are otherwise of no trouble or embarrassment to anyone. I plead strongly for a reconsideration of the rule which precludes what is surely a welcome escape from maternal routine. Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus