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...speaker on the podium of the plush, red-upholstered Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture let loose with a spirited 90-minute harangue against almost every aspect of the Polish government's economic policy. Social benefits, he asserted, were "much lower and much worse" than in other Communist-bloc countries. The national economy was collapsing due to "incompetence, lack of knowledge, the pursuit of private interests and bureaucratic swank and arrogance." Seldom since the heyday of Solidarity, the independent trade-union movement, had such harsh blasts been sounded at a Polish labor conference. But the times they...
EASTERN EUROPE. The most popular cities this year are Budapest and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia's Adriatic resort. The Hungarian capital is easy to reach by hydrofoil on the Danube from Vienna and has a reputation for being more hospitable to Americans than other Communist-bloc cities. A room at the Budapest Hyatt or Hilton starts at $50; an elegant meal at Gundel, the city's romantic garden restaurant, costs around $30 a person. Westerners get a kick out of tours of the Puszta region, where they feel at home on the range watching Hungarian cowboys rounding up cattle. With...
...against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
...behind the attack? Perhaps the Israelis, as Abu Daoud himself suggested. They certainly had motive enough. But Israeli intelligence officials insist that they would not undertake such a mission in a Communist-bloc country where infiltration and escape would be so difficult for the hit man. The attack could also have been the work of Abu Daoud's enemies within the Palestinian guerrilla movement, where motives are always obscure. Or, confounding all the experts, it could even have been, as Warsaw rumor had it, merely an affair of the heart...
...compete. The British Olympic Committee, defying its own government, voted in March to participate and insisted last week that it will not change. When the Games open in Moscow on July 19, they will be considerably less than a true Olympics, but apparently a lot more than a mere Communist-bloc Spartakiad...