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...Spisska Nova Ves, eastern Slovakia. "The Roma in this district make up 14% of the population yet account for 46% of births. If we sterilized them the way the report suggests, they couldn't bear so many children." Claude Cahn, programmes director at the European Roma Rights Center, a Budapest-based human-rights group, claims the report's findings were substantiated by his center's research. "We are looking at a difference in degree rather than of kind," Cahn says. "There is a particularly strong public discourse about curbing the growth rate of the Romany population in Slovakia, but issues...
...Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1917, Taft came to the United States at age five when her father accepted a research position in Ashville, Tenn. The family later moved to Boston where Taft’s father, Louis Dienes, served as chief bacteriologist...
...NATO planes. The decision wasn't easy; Hungary was at that time the only NATO member bordering Yugoslavia, and a large population of ethnic Hungarians live in that country's Vojvodina region. "That was a big tick on the positive side of the ledger," says a Western diplomat in Budapest. But then Hungary's brilliance began to fade. Among the criticisms: the sorry state of the country's troops and matériel, the lack of transparency in the way military contracts were doled out, and Hungary's lukewarm contribution to the war on terror. "We wasted three valuable years...
...Imre spoke several languages, dabbled in photography, admired Winston Churchill and worked at a textile office most of his life. Her mother typed manuscripts for local poets and philosophers and could whip up five different kinds of cakes "out of practically nothing." Judit herself, now 68 and living in Budapest, grew up and became a mother and schoolteacher. Yet the Kinszkis' story stands out not so much because of what they did, but where they lived - and when. They were Jews in Hungary before the outbreak of World War II. When the Holocaust engulfed Central and Eastern Europe, it erased...
DIED. PER ANGER, 88, Swedish diplomat who worked with Raoul Wallenberg to save thousands of Jews from Nazi death camps by issuing Swedish identity documents; in Stockholm. Wallenberg, who worked with Anger at the Swedish legation in Budapest, was arrested by the advancing Soviet army in 1945 and never heard from again. After the war, Anger led the effort to determine Wallenberg's fate, visiting Moscow in 1989 to make a personal appeal for information to Mikhail Gorbachev. Anger served as Sweden's ambassador to both Australia and Canada and was made an honorary Israeli citizen...