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Even as he threw rebellious students and workers into prison, Kadar ordered economists to diagram an overhaul for the country. "It was clear that centralized planning had failed," says Ivan T. Berend, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. "If we were to provide a comfortable standard of living, market principles had to be introduced." Unstated by Hungarian authorities was the premise that in return for that comfort the population would live passively under Communist rule...
...Many Hungarian technocrats feel that such problems can be cured, but only with greater economic freedom. Accordingly, additional reforms are being debated as part of Hungary's new Five-Year Plan, which begins in 1986. But no one is sure if additional changes will reverse the pattern. But under Moscow's watchful eye, Hungarian reformers are unlikely to move any faster. Says Marton Tardos, one of the country's most respected economic analysts: "If the government is bold, we can set the economy on the right track. But I am not sure it can or wants to be bold." Yugoslavia...
Started in 1948, World has teetered on the edge of financial ruin several times. It made its name flying refugees during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. A World aircraft was the last commercial airplane to leave Da Nang in 1975--overloaded with so many Vietnamese that eight turned up in the wheel wells. After an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a regularly scheduled carrier in the 1980s, World focused on military flying in the 1990s...
...North Korea] also has nuclear warheads and carrier missiles, which are targeted on the big cities of South Korea and Japan." INTERNAL MEMO from the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, dated Feb. 16, 1976, part of a trove of declassified Soviet-era documents released last week by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project...
...prefer hunting down cultural treasures, then call at one of the many historic towns and cities built on the Danube's banks. Budapest, Hungary's capital, is one of the most graceful. The Danube (or Duna in Hungarian) divides the city into the hilly side (Buda) and the flat side (Pest), from which it gets its name. Jog through the former and you can check out the gorgeous 15th century Royal Palace and the 700-year-old Matthias Church. Pick up a trail on the latter for views of the neo-Gothic parliament building and the beautiful Central Market Hall...