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...banjo is a long way from where Bela began. He was born in New York City. His mother was a public school teacher. "I never met my father," Fleck says. "He taught German for a living but was crazy about classical music. He named me after Bela Bartok, the Hungarian composer. He named my brother Ludwig after Beethoven. It was rough. The torture started in kindergarten...
...pervasive grime does more than degrade the quality of life; it cripples and shortens the lives of human beings. Illnesses traceable to pollution consume more than 13% of Hungary's health budget; at least 1 out of 17 Hungarian deaths stems from environmental causes. Around the East German industrial center of Leipzig, life expectancy is six years less than the national average. In the nearby town of Espenhain, 4 out of 5 children develop chronic bronchitis or heart ailments by the age of seven. Children in northern Bohemia, the heart of Czechoslovakia's industrial region, are taken...
...items in the bag stolen from the dental clinic in Gorky was a letter about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, then vanished when the Soviets occupied Budapest. Soviet authorities have maintained that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947 and the file of his case was destroyed. The latter assertion most assuredly is untrue: NKVD and KGB investigation files are stamped TO BE PRESERVED FOREVER; pages may be removed on instructions from the top, but a file is never completely eradicated...
...center-right Hungarian Democratic Forum, which won 43% of the vote in last month's elections, agreed to support Goencz, a leader of the main opposition, liberal Alliance of Free Democrats, who then called on the Forum's leader to form a government. In return, the Forum exacted pledges from the Alliance to cooperate when laws require a two-thirds majority...
...Slovak Federative Republic, removing a hyphen they had inserted only four weeks earlier. The new monumental mouthful was a concession to the country's 5 million Slovaks, who have resented the dominance of the 10 million Czechs ever since the country was formed in 1918 from the Austro-Hungarian empire's two western Slavonic provinces...