A Word Edgewise

A GRIM ANNIVERSARY

Boston, Oct.27Twenty-five years ago Soviet tanks surrounding Budapest moved into battle to destroy the reformist Hungarian Communist regime of Imre Nagy. A quarter of a century later there are some serious parallels in Poland, the most significant being the latest purge of the Party and government leadership. By October 1956, the Soviets in Hungary were down to one man: Janos Kadar. In Poland their last hope is General Wojciech Jaruzelski.