Word: gyula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrown open, East Germany charged that Hungary was in "clear violation of legal treaties" and demanded that it stop letting the refugees through. Budapest angrily dismissed the charges and asserted that it was not willing to become a "refugee camp" for East Germany's problem. Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn rejected the charges of payments from West Germany as "unacceptable and insulting," then hinted that East Germany might be guilty of the same. Horn had a point: since 1961, East Germany has demanded cash from West Germany before granting legal exit permits for many of its citizens. This year alone...
...Hungarian foreign minister, Gyula Horn, suggested on Hungarian television that tens of thousands of other East Germans now vacationing in Hungary also may choose to leave for the West along with those in the refugee camps...
...given workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists, will be a cut in state subsidies that keep prices of some goods artificially low. "We do not deny that we are pragmatists, but our final goal of creating a socialist society remains unchanged," says Gyula Kovács, vice president of the National Planning Office. "The ways of reaching that goal are different. We leave it to history to judge which is better...
DIED. Brassaï, 84, internationally renowned photographer who recorded the nighttime Parisian underworld of whores, hoodlums and homosexuals, of brothels, cabarets and opium dens, with a unique combination of directness, detachment and generosity; of a heart attack; in Eze sur Mer, France. Born Gyula Halász in Brassó (the origin of his pseudonym), in what is now Rumania, he went to Paris in 1924 to sculpt and write, then turned to photography to illustrate his articles. In 1933 his first major collection of seamy scenes, Paris de Nuit, was a sensation; a larger, franker version published...