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...uprising, in 1968 launched the East bloc's most successful economic reforms. He began to decentralize the economic system, introducing some free-market management methods and profit incentives. Later, the state allowed private ownership for some small and middle-size businesses. In effect, Kadar entered into an unwritten contract with the Hungarian people, allowing them a measure of freedom in their domestic lives as long as they left politics to the party. Today shop windows in Budapest are filled with clothes and appliances, while bookstores are well stocked with Hungarian titles and Western best sellers. Says a Hungarian historian...
...black community," says manager Frank Robinson, the former slugger who was the first black major league skipper. He plans to visit schools, YMCAs and business leaders to hype baseball. The Nationals have set up a foundation to promote and fund baseball and mentoring in inner-city areas. The contract that brought the team to Washington even stipulates that the Nationals engage with the community and offer free tickets to city kids. "The key for the Nats is to integrate themselves into the social fabric of the city, not just the rich, white suburbanites," says Brad Snyder, who wrote Beyond...
...general manager of the Choeung Ek genocide memorial, Neang Say revealed to the Cambodian media a second secret about the mass graves?a plan to privatize them, turning over their management to a Japanese company so they can be transformed into a revenue-generating tourist attraction. According to a contract signed on March 18, the new operator, JC Royal Co., is expected to "increase revenue for the state and develop and renovate the beauty of Choeung Ek killing fields." JC Royal is to pay the municipality of Phnom Penh $15,000 a year. In return, it will be allowed...
...government reacted defensively to news reports about the contract. On Thursday, the country's powerful Council of Ministers released a statement that Chea Vandeth, Cabinet Chief for Prime Minister Hun Sen, was the chairman of JC Royal, and that he would donate any profit from the killing fields to the Sun Fund, a philanthropic organization established by the Prime Minister in 2002. But critics of the deal have not been appeased. Youk Chhang, director of a Khmer Rouge archive called the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen last week seeking his intervention. "Any contract...
...commend the recent contract signed by German Education and Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn in Jakarta on March 14 to install an early-warning system, designed by Germany’s largest research institution, the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers. The system will be effective in registering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis and is estimated to cost Germany’s national research center for geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, roughly 45 million Euro ($60.3 million), a paltry price to pay for the potential lives that will be saved by this early alert system...