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...good effect. He understands that politics is a matter of being right about ends as well as means, of recognizing limits as well as obligations and opportunities. The last thing Bush wants is to repeat the mistake that the Eisenhower Administration made in 1956 when it egged on the Hungarian freedom fighters, leading many of them to die in the expectation of more help than the West could possibly provide. Bush has correctly concentrated on persuading Gorbachev to avert bloodshed and work toward a compromise. To urge him to grant Lithuania the instant annulment it demands would be futile...
...fighting was a new blow to Romania's provisional government and a brutal reminder of how easily ethnic tensions can explode in Eastern Europe. Freed from the iron rule of the Ceausescu regime, Romania's 2 million ethnic Hungarians (in a total population of 23 million) have begun to campaign for greater autonomy in Transylvania, where most of them live. Their demands have outraged Romanian nationalists. Several clashes, including the savage beating of four local leaders of the Hungarian Democratic Union, led up to the latest hostilities...
...Room 22 former California Governor Jerry Brown and a delegation of Democratic Party state leaders are just beginning a breathless one-day inspection tour in which they will boldly pass judgment on Hungarian democratic procedures. Brown is having trouble grasping the significance of the upcoming March 15 national holiday; this is akin to a Hungarian being mystified by American fireworks on July 4. For March 15 is the anniversary of the failed 1848 Hungarian revolution and the date previously favored by anti- Communist dissidents for illegal protests. A Forum leader explains that his party plans to press its rivals...
...Galen explains. "All candidates are optimists," he says. "They'll think they're the ones who are going to win." Kulin's response is a textbook example of culture gap. "This may hold true for Americans," he says, "but candidates in Hungary would assume that they would lose. The Hungarian people are not used to being winners...
...Nicaragua last month, no one can gainsay the worth of impartial poll watchers and international inspection teams. But there is also a missionary strain in the American psyche that can inadvertently trample on foreign customs and cultures under the guise of strengthening democratic institutions. As the Hungarian experience suggests, democracy may be the U.S.'s greatest export, but that does not necessarily mean that American political operatives are the product's best service technicians...