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...police held back traffic as an elated throng of 75,000 marchers snaked through the streets of central Budapest waving red-white-and-green Hungarian flags and shouting "Democracy!" Under banners as disparate as those of the liberal reformist Hungarian Democratic Forum and the neo-Stalinist Ferenc Munnich Society, independent political clubs and parties reveled peacefully last week in the first officially sanctioned street demonstrations since last fall, when legislation for sweeping political reforms was introduced, including a multiparty system for the socialist state. Thousands more Hungarians marked National Day by heading -- literally -- for the exits. Easy access to passports...
...rusted to nothing. He admits, however, that the sword in question was engraved with the letter A. And he retails the scholarly notion that long before it belonged to the proprietor of Camelot it was the legendary Sword of Mars, said to make its wielder invincible, discovered on the Hungarian plain and owned by none other than Attila...
...Good food and decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...
...many countries, the collection is rich and varied. Like many Met productions, the book is visually gorgeous; in fact, it is too pretty to cook by. It would be nice to have a recipes-only version for the kitchen. With luck it would still include Sherill Milne's Hungarian goulash soup, Regina Resnik's cold stuffed veal roast and Placido Domingo's opulent zarzuela de mariscos, a symphony of shellfish, wine, saffron, olive oil, peppers and garlic...
Setting this precedent eventually required two months and reams of correspondence with fifteen American universities, Citicorp bank, and five separate ministries of the Hungarian government. Karossy began by sending letters to admissions officers of the various universities, without notifying the Hungarian authorities...