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That punch line sets off a howl of laughter in the Budapest cabaret Vidám Szinpad, where audiences flock to see Go Hungarians, a comedy revue with a heavy dash of political seasoning. In the nearly three decades since Soviet tanks crushed the 1956 uprising, Hungary has learned to live and prosper just within the limits of what Moscow will tolerate. Budapest presents ample evidence of the cautious changes that have made Hungary's 11 million people the most Westernized and best fed in the Soviet bloc...
Long lines and empty shelves may be common in many other parts of Eastern Europe, but the shop windows of Budapest display everything from stylish eyeglass frames and fur coats to swimming rafts and potted cactus plants. The main market near Váci Street is a colorful cornucopia of scarlet paprika garlands, pigs' heads on hooks, mounds of emerald melons and fish tanks teeming with carp...
...changes will result in higher prices and open the way for such capitalist troubles as bankruptcy and unemployment. In any case, the success of Hungary's flirtation with capitalist economics will ultimately depend on Moscow: every dip in the East-West temperature hits Hungary like a cold spell. Budapest downplayed East German Leader Erich Honecker's decision not to visit West Germany; instead it emphasizes the possible improvements in superpower relations that might result from the Washington meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...Budapest Grand Prix had been billed as a showdown between East and West, since a number of Americans and other non-Communist athletes were scheduled to appear. In the end, all the best-known Westerners except U.S. Supersprinter Carl Lewis decided to withdraw. Lewis, moody behind dark glasses, made little headway with the international press corps, but he had no trouble winning the 100 meters with a time of 10.05, .06 slower than his Olympic mark. Eight other winners at Budapest, all of them from boycotting countries, posted records better than those of Los Angeles...
Another Grand Prix winner was Yuri Sedikh, the tanklike Soviet hammer thrower. He seemed to expend more effort in getting to Budapest than in tossing the hammer more than 22 ft. farther than the winning mark in Los Angeles, setting a new world record. After his coach forbade him to participate, he appealed to the Soviet Sports Minister, who allowed him to make the trip. After his triumph, he appeared wistful in an interview. A winning statistic is still only a statistic, and to athletes there remains something magical about a gold medal. Sedikh may have been speaking for several...