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Andropov is the first KGB head since Beria to sit on the Politburo. He is a party man, not an agency professional. His most notable previous post: Soviet Ambassador in Budapest, where he helped put down the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Among Andropov's most important functions is to keep the KGB under firm party control so that the secret police can never again wield the power it possessed under Stalin, when it arrested, tortured and killed thousands of loyal party officials...
...kind of warm, richly singing sound that is characteristic of a violin. Which makes sense, since Ormandy was trained as a violinist. His father, a music-loving dentist in Budapest, wanted him to be a famous virtuoso like the Hungarian Jenö Hubay. Little Eugene obliged by making his debut at seven and touring Europe in his teens. But at 21, he was lured to the U.S. and then stranded by bungling promoters. Alone in New York, he was literally down to his last nickel when he landed a job in the orchestra that played between movies at the Capitol...
DIED. Ernö Gerö, 81, pro-Moscow Hungarian who as leader of his country's Communist Party sought to stop rising anti-Soviet feeling by ordering police to fire into a group of demonstrators in Budapest on Oct. 23, 1956, the episode that inflamed the heroic but brutally quelled Hungarian uprising; of a heart attack; in Budapest...
...immunity" of foreign diplomats from local laws and regulations, and the "inviolability" of embassy ground. Inviolable sanctuary has been upheld even in hours of international conflict. In the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution, for example, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty sought and received the safety of the U.S. legation in Budapest for 15 years. These principles are spelled out in the Vienna Convention of 1961, which has been ratified by 131 nations?including Iran...
...looks as though we've just witnessed the birth of the Afghanistan S.S.R. And as in Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968, there is damn little that anyone can do about...