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...talking with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Salzburg. He will also make a brief side trip to Madrid. Ford's European travels will end on June 3 after a ten-hour stopover in Rome to pay courtesy calls on President Giovanni Leone, Premier Mariano Rumor and Pope Paul VI. Traveling with Ford will be Kissinger, who last week spent five days in Europe setting the stage for the presidential diplomacy. Kissinger visited Ankara, Bonn, West Berlin and Vienna, where he talked for eleven hours with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...most poignant chapter of Mindszenty's life began when he was finally freed in 1971. The cardinal had long refused to leave Hungary unless the government exonerated him of all charges. It was only at the insistence of Pope Paul VI and the urging of President Nixon, who both wanted to improve East-West relations, that Mindszenty agreed to go. Even then, according to his own account, he refused to accept a church document specifying that he would make no statements to disturb détente...
...regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered, entering into exile in Vienna...
Before noon five Communist tanks, a dozen armored personnel carriers and truckloads of green-uniformed troops who wore helmets inscribed TIEN VI SAIGON?Onward to Saigon?swept down Unity Boulevard to the presidential palace. The gates had been left ajar, but one tank, followed by several others, smashed through the fence nonetheless, then fired triumphal salvos. One detachment of troops drove off in a Jeep with Minh to an undisclosed location; later he was brought back to repeat his surrender announcement before being whisked away again...
Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity...