European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Up photo not troop a mashed the october 1sss uprising. Pijie existence of Section 301. The woman. Istvan Nagy iad Learned that her son. Jozsef and the men condemned with him were to be hanged on a Day in february 1959. Stealthily and at a distance she followed Mieir coffins from Yuto jail to Tho weedy Patch. Now 87, she still comes regularly to Pray at Tho site. 5he to a Mecs about the secret Graves and through Lim other relatives of the people who were hanged earned about Section 301. Mecs said that within tha last two years several family members of those who were hanged petitioned the ministry of Justice to have the bodies reburied in family lot3. They were told he said that no records could be found to indicate who was buried in which grave. Mecs finds this explanation incredible and a called that while he was in jail under sentence of Jean he was told that people who were to be hanged Tad identifying Metal bracelets attached to their legs. As for erecting a Tablet that would name All Tho victims Mecs and some relatives regard such a is Sibilly As vary unlikely. Two years ago i spoke at the funeral of Miklos Clerfi an old colleague from tha 1956 revolution fees said. There were perhaps �00 people and 50 linemen and of course i praised my Friend for his air holism and valor. The result was that i was fired from a. Jim Job in a slate enterprise.". J of you Are discouraged from paying homage to Kople at private funerals it is hard of imagine that Youin erect a Public Tablet Mecs said. He now works As private consultant. A number of people in Hungary s amorphous Liberal l opposition believe that the efforts to keep obscure the wants of 1956 relate directly to the life and myth of Fanos Kadar the 76-year-old party Leader who first grasped the reins of Power As tie soviet forces arrived. Since then he has gradually moved his country on a path of economic liberalization adopting some of the changes isl proposed by those calling for democracy in 1956, measures such As the recently enacted provision for the text xxi of factory directors by workers. Kadar has unquestionably gained popular support Tince carrying out policies of reconciliation n the Lale 1960s. At that time a shifted a key political slogan from those who Are not with us Are against us to those. My Are not against us Are with but according to several of the dissidents Kadar it Hay Well be haunted by tha events of years ago. These i Rojten and women Point out that in the stalinist 1950s,Hen Hungary was ruled by Palyas Rakosi Kadar was x a jail with Nagy and others whose imprisonments and to cautions he later authorized. President it Neal Ortega of Nicaragua addressing tha . Security Council last month condemning . Refusal to abide by Worth court ruling about eld to Contra rate. Up Onclo Ortega Nicaragua sandinista strongman by Reid g. Miller associated press Aniel Ortega is a Pool dedicated to 1- to rus family and revolution who was carried though a bloody War to Nicaragua s presidency by what friends and critics alike Call the guts of a Street tighter. Some consider him one of the More pragmatic sandinista leaders but he remains uncompromising in his Altitude toward the leftist government s chief antagonist the United states. In his recent speech 1o the . Security Council. Ortega said president Reagan should realize that by supporting the Contra rebels in Nicaragua he is promoting another Vietnam in Central although he Hae expressed willingness to negotiate with the superpower to the North he excludes one of the most vital issues Tho sharing of Power within Nicaragua. Ortega 40, and his fellow sandinista won their Power in a Long arduous War that finally ousted president Anastasio Somoza in july 1979, ending 42 years of right Wing Rule by the so Moi i family those who know Ortega describe him As Al once simple and Complex accustomed to Public adulation but retiring in private a family Man whose duties often keep him away from his Wile and eight children More than he would like. He has never adopted the trappings of a latin american strongman often wearing a to shirt with jeans or Khaki pants in his office at Home or for Public appearances in Nicaragua. The Only ornamentation on the Khaki uniform that denotes him a commander of the revolution is a sandinista Emblem on the Collar and single Silver stars on the Epa lets. On trips in Nicaragua a often is his own Driver travelling in a four wheel drive vehicle with Security agents trailing behind rather than by limousine. Ortega rises Early generally runs at least three Miles each morning and often puts in is or 1 6 hours a Day Al his office. Marxist i a Label often attached to him. He does not use it himself but said in an interview it is not a sin to be a marxist president Reagan portrays marxism As bad and then Ortega As marxist so Ortega is bad. You must understand the realities of these countries. You could not be a revolutionary without agreeing with marxist he was born on nov. 11.1945, in la Libertad a Small town 110 Miles West of Managua in Chon tales province. Both his parents Are said to have spent time in prison because of their opposition to the Somoza family. His father was a Middle class merchant with a philosophical Bent who wrote anti Somoza tracts that got him into trouble with the government. His Molher helped out by running a Small bakery after the ortegas moved to Managua in the mid-1950s. Daniel took to Iho streets in opposition to the Somoza when he was 13. His first arrest was two years later for breaking car windows during a protest by the nicaraguan patriotic youth a forerunner of Tho sandinista National liberation front. Other jail terms followed in 1961.1963 and 1964. Ortega went to Cuba for a leftist s indent convention in 1966. When he returned he became commander of Urban guerrillas. He took part in a Bank robbery the following year a common rebel method of raising funds. A guard was killed in Tho Holdup and police already on Ortega s Trail captured him soon afterwards. He spent the next seven years in jail winning release Only when other sandinista raided an Ole gang private Christmas party in Managua in 1974. They exchanged their hostages for the Freedom of Onega and two dozen other imprisoned comrades and Somoza provided a plane to Lake the freed guerrillas to Cuba. The Young guerrilla wrote poems in prison the Best known of which was i never saw Managua when mini Skirls were in fashion. Some wore sent to la Prensa the newspaper that opposed Somoza and was closed last month for opposing the sandinista. Rosario Murillo was a Secretary at the newspaper and secretly sent her own poems to him in prison. She later became his wife. Ortega resumed from Cuba secretly in 197s to Lind the sandinista front split by dissension. A helped assemble an opposition movement that included legitimate political parties labor unions and business organizations. Critics including the Reagan administration contend that the sandinista excluded those allies after gaining Power and consolidated their position under a marxist Leninist Banner soon after the Victory in 1979, Ortega was named to the nine Man directorate which remains As Nicaragua s supreme political authority and he became president in an election nov. 4,1964, that the moderate opposition boycotted. His wife Rosario president of the sandinista association of culture workers has two children from a previous marriage and she and Ortega have had Lour together Ortega s two other children were born Lole Ticia Herrera a guerrilla Veteran who leads the network of sandinista defense committees. His younger brother Humberto is one of the nine commanders and serves As defense minister another brother Camilo was killed fighting for the sandinista in 1978. The stars and stripes pagans
