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...Sunday thousands of people went to the cemetery to look through rows of unidentified bodies lying in plain wooden coffins. They were searching for a missing brother or son among the 25,000 dead in Budapest's six weeks of revolt...
...first the workers were prepared to dicker and, to indicate their reasonableness, agreed to "suspend" their demand for Nagy's return. But when Kadar proved unwilling to make any real concessions, they began to fight back. Angered by his refusal to allow them to publish a paper, the Budapest Workers' Council exhorted all Hungarians to boycott the government press. Ominously strike leaders warned Kadar that his obduracy might force them to plunge the country into "total anarchy...
Once again Kadar's Russian masters moved to his rescue. "By night," reported TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark from Budapest, "the city is usually quiet and no Hungarians are abroad after the 9 o'clock curfew. Late last Saturday night and early Sunday morning it was different. The sporadic flourish of small arms fire and an occasional artillery shot echoed and re-echoed from the hills of Buda. Reinforcements of Soviet tanks were moving into the city. They came because Budapest streets were littered on Saturday afternoon with leaflets calling for a 'total strike' in the name...
...hours after the leaflets appeared a representative of the Workers' Council went on Radio Budapest to deny that they had been issued by the council. He warned that they were false and provocative, and urged the people to disregard them. In many homes electricity was off, and so was the radio. But fortunately the telephone still worked, and despite the curfew word gradually got around...
...embattled weeks, United Press Correspondent Russell Jones was the only U.S. newsman left in Hungary (TIME, Dec. 3). By teletype, telephone and courier he filed the full story of rebellion, reprisal and resistance. Last week, as two other Western correspondents arrived in Budapest on temporary visas, Jones, whose visa had expired, was given three days to leave the country. "What happens," he asked a Foreign Ministry official, "if I stay?" Came the reply: "Please, Mr. Jones...