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...U.S.S.R. and elsewhere, state subsidies hold down the prices of some necessities, and the government pays the bill by keeping wages lean. Bureaucratic ministries are slow to make minor price adjustments. Thus, when prices do increase, they explode. Last year Czechoslovak children's clothing jumped 200% and Hungarian bread went up 50%. At the same time, consumers regularly face shortages. In Communist countries, the block-long queue at meat
DIED. Ernö Gerö, 81, pro-Moscow Hungarian who as leader of his country's Communist Party sought to stop rising anti-Soviet feeling by ordering police to fire into a group of demonstrators in Budapest on Oct. 23, 1956, the episode that inflamed the heroic but brutally quelled Hungarian uprising; of a heart attack; in Budapest...
...Europe. Western diplomats, at least, would not know how to operate without two of its principal canons: the "immunity" of foreign diplomats from local laws and regulations, and the "inviolability" of embassy ground. Inviolable sanctuary has been upheld even in hours of international conflict. In the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution, for example, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty sought and received the safety of the U.S. legation in Budapest for 15 years. These principles are spelled out in the Vienna Convention of 1961, which has been ratified by 131 nations?including Iran...
Dodging a Hungarian double agent and a two-dimensional Soviet intelligence chief, pausing briefly to satisfy a lascivious lady, Oakes not only carries off the kidnaping, but wins the friendship of both the scientist and his wife. What he fails to do is prevent the Soviet space spectacular. He does, however, have a hell of a time trying...
Ordinarily, interferon is produced by virtually all cells in the human body, which get their instructions for making it from a specific gene in their DNA; these are passed on to the cells' protein-manufacturing sites by a genetic molecule known as messenger RNA. But for Hungarian-born Charles Weissmann of the University of Zurich, and his Swiss, Finnish and Japanese colleagues, the natural process was only a starting point. After extracting messenger RNAs from human white blood cells, which were producing interferon, they used these molecules to generate sections of DNA that they hoped would include the required...