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...exhilarations -- and perils -- of bold action were part of Maxwell's appetite from the start. Born Jan Ludvik Hoch in the Czech village of Solotvino, he lost his parents and four siblings at Auschwitz. Having left for Budapest in 1939, he arrived in France early the following year and sailed to Liverpool a few months later. He won Britain's Military Cross in January 1945 for leading a platoon against a German defensive position. In London after the war, he launched Pergamon Press, a scientific publisher. In 1969 Maxwell lost the company in a scandal: he was charged with misrepresenting...
Felzenberg, senior program officer of the Democracy Corps, also participated in the trip to Bratislava, Prague and Budapest, along with Princeton University economist Richard Quandt...
Most important, Gorbachev ended the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe. For decades, the key fact of life in Eastern Europe was that Big Brother in Moscow was prepared to use tanks, bayonets and KGB advisers to keep little brothers in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Berlin in power. Gorbachev put the communists in what used to be the Soviet bloc on notice that they were on their own. That meant they were finished...
...number of state development offices abroad, which function almost like consulates, has doubled in the past five years, to 160. Illinois has more foreign offices than many small nations; it has outposts in Moscow, Shenyang, Brussels, Warsaw, Budapest, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong and Osaka. No fewer than 38 states -- plus San Bernardino, Calif., and Houston -- maintain offices in Tokyo...
...help them -- and especially eager to earn handsome fees for making the deals -- are scores of investment bankers who have descended upon Eastern Europe. "It's Klondike on the Danube," says George Lorinczi, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, an American law firm that opened an office in Budapest last September...