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When Janos Vargha took a job at the scientific journal Buvar in Budapest, one of his first assignments was to study a dam being built on the Danube near the Hungarian village of Nagymaros. Vargha's article, critical of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian project in those pre-glasnost days, was spiked. "That was my first experience with censorship," he says...
...just 4,000 for all other foreign languages combined. Russian instructors there and in Hungary have been encouraged to learn English, German and other Western languages, but few seem eager to make the switch. "This is a grave crisis for me," says Gabriella Udvarheyli, 34, a Russian teacher in Budapest. "All those years of study and, suddenly, my subject is swept aside...
...Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like the Gang That Couldn't See Straight -- which soothes no anxieties about the fate of the heisted artworks...
...with El Al, the Israeli airline, to establish direct flights from Moscow to Tel Aviv, which would ferry 10,000 to 12,000 Jews per month out of the U.S.S.R. Without such flights, the only route out of the U.S.S.R. for Jews is a flight to Vienna, Rome, or Budapest, and then a connecting flight to either the U.S. or Israel...
...hours, affording ample opportunity for the concealment of many kinds of mischief. But the proposal is viewed as a useful confidence-building device by all 23 nations involved. Negotiators hope to have a document ready for signing at a second foreign ministers' conference to be held May 12 in Budapest...