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...when a transcript of that speech was leaked to the press over the weekend, it produced another outpouring of public revulsion. Protestors took to the same streets, including the Parliament buildings and the famous Szabadsag, or Freedom, Square, where Soviet tanks clashed with demonstrators almost exactly one half century...
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Three Black Sedans. The pawn of these delicate negotiations leads a spare and lonely life inside the drafty old building at Szabadsag Ter 12 in Budapest. Legation officials admit few visitors, and the guest list for the Mass that he celebrates on Sundays is forwarded to Washington for clearance. By all accounts, the cardinal remains chipper, although one U.S. visitor who heard him preach recently says that his mind tends to wander. At night, only he and an American duty officer occupy the legation. Outside, three black sedans of the Hungarian secret police are on around-the-clock alert...
...police action cannot change a people's heart. A hint of Kadar's despair at overcoming the Gandhi-like spirit of resistance in Hungary was given in Nep Szabadsag recently. Children, said the party newspaper, should be separated from their parents and brought up in "child villages," where they could be taught "socialist patriotism and discipline." This was the Communist way of saying that it was a struggle that could go on for generations...
...ideological struggle, Kadar obviously meant his failure to persuade the people that his regime was good for them. In several areas the workers' councils refused to accept his decree outlawing them. According to Kadar's official Nep Szabadsag, Heves county, northeast of Budapest, was virtually a rebel stronghold whose villagers "just jeer at the order and carry on their activities ..." But Kadar's biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners...