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...Hungarian Green for a Blue Danube...
When Janos Vargha took a job at the scientific journal Buvar in Budapest, one of his first assignments was to study a dam being built on the Danube near the Hungarian village of Nagymaros. Vargha's article, critical of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian project in those pre-glasnost days, was spiked. "That was my first experience with censorship," he says...
...last. To find out why his article was killed, Vargha began a more thorough investigation. He immersed himself in subjects such as irrigation and geology and was named to a commission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to assess the dam's impact. One area at risk: the Danube Bend, a graceful curve of the river near the historic residence of Hungarian kings. Though the government banned public debate on the project, Vargha persisted. He helped publish a newsletter about the dam and circulated a petition against it that drew 10,000 signatures -- an action that, at the time...
...Hungarians waited 45 years for the free elections they finally enjoyed last week. Then they had to wait another 48 hours for the results to be funneled through an archaic telephone network and a malfunctioning computer system. When the bulk of the 7.5 million ballots were finally counted, the Hungarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communists, had won less than 11% of the vote, only enough to give it a peripheral role in the nation's future...
...allocation of 386 parliamentary seats will be determined after runoff elections scheduled for April 8. But the first-round results made clear the country's overwhelming preference for two center-right parties, the Hungarian Democratic Forum (25% of the vote) and the Alliance of Free Democrats (21%). Since neither of the front runners is likely to win an outright majority in the next round, talks to stitch together a governing coalition with the Independent Smallholders' Party and other parties quickly got under...