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...Hungarian National Police High Commissioner Jozsef Bencze says he has 100 investigators working the case, and has set up a response network so police can lock down any area in Hungary within five minutes of receiving word of a new attack. Police have also announced a reward worth $231,000 for information resulting in an arrest in any of the murders. "The noose is tightening around these perpetrators," he told TIME...
...with Western videocassette recorders, luxury clothing and high-tech kitchen appliances. The nearby food markets display long racks of sausage and ham, mounds of fresh winter vegetables and ubiquitous garlands of crimson paprikas. Says a member of Hungary's new economic gentry, a small-time plastics manufacturer known as Jozsef: "Are we rich? By Western standards, no. But here, we are quite comfortable...
...gone forever. ``You cannot revive Jewish culture here,'' says Russia's Gerber. ``You cannot revive something that is finished.'' Others are troubled that the youthful embrace of Judaism is only rarely a question of faith. ``A lot of them want to be Jewish without the religion,'' complains Rabbi Jozsef Schweitzer, head of Budapest's Rabbinical Seminary. ``We as rabbis want the end station of this renaissance to be synagogue Jews, not club Jews...
Ethnic and national tensions are perhaps most troublesome in Hungary. Not long before he died several weeks ago, Prime Minister Jozsef Antall declared himself the leader of 15 million Hungarians, pointedly extending his domain beyond the 10 million in the country. Antall, who was considered a moderate, is not alone. Many Hungarians want to protect their expatriate brothers currently enduring discrimination in Serbia, Romania and Ukraine. "If our reaching out to the West doesn't produce results in three or four years with something like NATO membership -- or its clear prospect -- the nationalists will roar back," says Istvan Gyarmati, Hungary...
...least, would not know how to operate without two of its principal canons: the "immunity" of foreign diplomats from local laws and regulations, and the "inviolability" of embassy ground. Inviolable sanctuary has been upheld even in hours of international conflict. In the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution, for example, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty sought and received the safety of the U.S. legation in Budapest for 15 years. These principles are spelled out in the Vienna Convention of 1961, which has been ratified by 131 nations?including Iran...