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...tested by the netless high wire separating the national Communism of Poland from that of Hungary. In Poland the Soviet Union tolerates Wladyslaw Gomulka's "pure" national Communism; in Hungary it cracked down mercilessly when Imre Nagy tried to dilute national Communism with social democracy. Since the Hungarian crackdown, Tito has gone to elaborate lengths to prove to the Russians the "purity" in Moscow terms of his own brand of national Communism. Last week he did his best to show that his regime was not guilty of democracy...
...members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist on the satellites, who arrived in Budapest shortly before the Soviet crackdown began...
...proposal, which will be presented to the Council Monday, also urges a crackdown on out-of-state and out-of-town cars with inadequate insurance coverage...
Abramson urged the councilors to adopt the alternate-side night parking plan, which was discarded by another committee last week. While this system may hurt garage owners, Abramson said, a crackdown would be damaging to service station operators since it may cause "as many as 1500 students to leave their cars at home...
...Polytechnic Institute last week, 30 determined young Poles probed deep for the weak spot in Russia's hitherto impregnable Communist empire. No plotters, and meaning to be peaceable, they were asking questions: How much farther can Poland go on the road to democratization without risking a Soviet crackdown? Can the Polish Communist Party slow down the momentum of Poland's drive for complete national independence? The answers could also spell out the end of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, and a formidable reduction of Soviet power itself...