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...have differed if the Soviets and East Europeans had been there? Some answers, plus a few tantalizing speculations, emerged from two Communist-sponsored meets last week. In Moscow and several Soviet-bloc countries an event called the Friendship '84 Games was being staged. In Hungary the eighth annual Budapest Grand Prix was held. The news from both cities was not all that reassuring to Olympic champions. In all, more than 20 Soviet-bloc athletes posted better marks than those in Los Angeles, and at least seven of them set new world records...
Last week's announcement read like the obituary of any failed company. Because of falling demand, lagging technology and tough competition, IGV, a business-machine and precision-tool manufacturer, was going bankrupt. The difference was that IGV is based in Budapest, and the liquidation was ordered by Hungary's Minister of Industry. It was perhaps the first admitted bankruptcy ever in the East bloc...
...slowed by two successive and serious injuries: a torn ligament in his left leg and a severed Achilles tendon. His appearance in international meets was both belated and successful. He won his first gold medal on parallel bars at the 1981 world championships in Moscow. Last year in Budapest, he finished first on rings and second in the all-round competition. Gushiken, realizing that these Olympic Games will be his first and probably last, shows formidable determination: "I didn't grow older for nothing. You'll find out at Los Angeles...
...created a land in the image of their old European homes. Speaking the Judeo-Spanish language of Ladino, the Sephardim could not follow the cadences of its Central European equivalent, Yiddish. Accustomed to Middle Eastern pastimes, they were little taken with cafes based on the coffeehouses of Vienna and Budapest and filled with Hapsburg-era music. Raised on couscous, they had no taste for gefilte fish. Even their religious customs differed from those of the Europeans: at Passover, for example, the Sephardim are allowed to eat rice and legumes, which are forbidden the Ashkenazim. They also sometimes indulge in exuberant...
...country since the 1956 revolution. The jovial Kádár, 71, arrived early for their meeting, along with ample supplies of roses, cigarettes and mineral water. He later confessed to Thatcher that he had been concerned that her plane might not be able to land because of Budapest's "London fog." Then the small talk gave way to more serious matters: East-West relations, disarmament, the possibility of increased trade between the two countries, Kadar's experiments with free enterprise within a state socialist economy...