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...desperately short of hotel space. Every night this summer, Warsaw will need 3,000 more beds than are available. Prague, which has 6,000 tourist-class beds, needs to double its capacity if it is to begin to cope with demand. It is as bad, if not worse, in Budapest. "We just can't keep up with the boom," says Gyorgy Szekely, vice president of Ibusz, the state-run travel company. "We need more of everything." Given the accommodations shortage, the best advice for tourists is to set out with confirmed reservations...
Washington, it seems, is a city in decline. History has taken up residence in Budapest and Tokyo, Brussels and Seoul. After a brief spurt of prominence and wealth owed to the Depression, Hitler and the cold war, Washington, we are told, has lapsed into a somnambular state...
...items in the bag stolen from the dental clinic in Gorky was a letter about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, then vanished when the Soviets occupied Budapest. Soviet authorities have maintained that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947 and the file of his case was destroyed. The latter assertion most assuredly is untrue: NKVD and KGB investigation files are stamped TO BE PRESERVED FOREVER; pages may be removed on instructions from the top, but a file is never completely eradicated...
...help bolster the East bloc's fledgling reform efforts. In January the American Federation of Teachers unveiled a project to help East European educators learn how to instill democratic principles in their schools. Hungarians got a taste of free-market theory last fall, when the International Management Center in Budapest, in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh, became the bloc's first business school to offer an American M.B.A...
Meanwhile, Corvin University, the first private university in postwar Eastern Europe, is scheduled to open its doors in Budapest next September. Fees will be high -- some $3,000 a year -- but students are already jostling for places. And that, says Istvan Horvath, president of the University Federation of Hungary, is the way it should be: "Competition must be created for the student and the institution in all subjects...