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...central committee secretary, and looms as a potential successor to Zhivkov. In Czechoslovakia a quiet changing of the guard is under way. Says a highly placed official in his 40s: "The older ones are going, and we're taking over." In Hungary the fading power and health of Janos Kadar, 73, are sparking a succession debate at the top level of leadership. Some officials would like to use this opportunity to return to highly disciplined central economic planning on the East German model, but others are pushing for an even greater move toward Western-style reforms...
...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...
...later confessed to Thatcher that he had been concerned that her plane might not be able to land because of Budapest's "London fog." Then the small talk gave way to more serious matters: East-West relations, disarmament, the possibility of increased trade between the two countries, Kadar's experiments with free enterprise within a state socialist economy...
Later, Andropov is said to have supported Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar's liberalizing economic reforms. But according to Columbia University's Seweryn Bialer, he is scarcely likely to model the gigantic, centrally planned Soviet economy on the Hungarian system, which has abolished most planning and is heavily dependent on imports and exports. As a secretary of the Central Committee from 1962 to 1967, he was in charge of relations with the Communist bloc, traveling to Eastern Europe, Albania, Yugoslavia and Viet Nam. Says the University of California's George Breslauer: "He has tended to take a more tolerant view...
This equation is repeated in one form or another throughout Eastern Europe. The Hungarian regime of Janos Kadar displays a limited amount of internal liberalisation, again in some accomodation to the Catholic Church, but externally remains the Soviet Union's devoted ally. Bulgaria has perhaps the weakest dissident movement and the genuine racial affinity her people feel with Russia is underlined by the historical fact of being saved by them from the fate of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire...