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...Peking has fanned out across Eastern Europe during the past four months. President Li Xiannian traveled to Rumania and Yugoslavia. China's Minister of Foreign Trade, Chen Muhua, made well-publicized visits to Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria. The good feelings have been reciprocated. Last August, Hungarian Deputy Premier József Marjai became the highest-ranking East European official to visit China in nearly two decades. Peking has also played host to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland...
...dispel speculation that the leader's health is failing and that his nation is suffering a leadership vacuum. A few days after signing a friendship treaty in Moscow with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen, Chernenko last week received Syrian President Hafez Assad in the Kremlin. Hungarian Communist Leader Janos Kadar, on a visit to Paris last week, insisted that all is well in the Moscow hierarchy. Said he: "It is a stable leadership, and the continuity of its leadership is the mark of its stability...
...night devoted to singing, and the cast, conducted by the company's music director, James Levine, was a rich international assemblage that included the splendid Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the gentle maiden Elsa, the fiery Hungarian soprano Eva Marton as the scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid...
...Hungarian is knocked unconscious in the Stalinist era and miraculously comes to his senses in a hospital in 1984. To his amazement, he learns that physicians are no longer addressed as "comrade doctor" but as just plain "doctor." Moreover, János Kádár, once out of favor with the Kremlin, now leads the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. The man's wife appears in the company of a punk rocker in black leather; she has remarried, she says, and has opened a fashion boutique. "Where am I?" moans the Hungarian. "Can this be socialism...
Since 1968, when the Hungarians began to reorder their economy and abandon strict Soviet-style central planning, the country has pieced together a new system of economic management that mixes state ownership with individual enterprise. Hungarian agriculture, for example, has prospered by encouraging the cultivation of private plots on state-organized cooperative farms. The government is giving factory managers the power to make many of their own decisions about production quotas and reinvestment of capital and to reward efficient employees with bonuses. The latest reforms have given workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists...