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...world, on land and in the water, are dwindling each year. "Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the study's authors wrote in Science. "Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions," said Julie Marton-Lefevre, the IUCN's director-general, at the organization's annual congress in Barcelona. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives...
...governing coalition regard the restitution of the castle as compensation for the injustice that the Habsburg family suffered under the communists and see the Parliament's demand to nullify the restitution as a relapse into the communist era: "This decision is an embarrassment for the Romanian Parliament," Marton Arpad, MP for the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) told TIME: "We fought 17 years to get away from Communism, now we seem to be going straight back." He called the vote in parliament a "violation of the constitution that will set Romania back years...
...DIED. ENDRE MARTON, 95, Budapest-born Associated Press reporter who filed the first eyewitness account of the bloody Hungarian uprising against communist rule in 1956; in New York City. Competing with his wife, who worked for another wire service, he flouted the clampdown on communications by stealthily using a government telex machine to file his initial 2,000-word chronicle, which opened with a description of a Soviet tank firing on protesters "whose only weapons were Hungarian flags...
...ENDRE MARTON, 95, Budapest-born Associated Press reporter who filed the first eyewitness account of the bloody Hungarian uprising against communist rule in 1956; in New York City. Competing with his wife, who worked for another wire service, he flouted the clampdown on communications by stealthily using a government telex machine to file his initial 2,000-word chronicle, which opened with a description of a Soviet tank firing at protesters "whose only weapons were Hungarian flags...
...greater economic freedom. Accordingly, additional reforms are being debated as part of Hungary's new Five-Year Plan, which begins in 1986. But no one is sure if additional changes will reverse the pattern. But under Moscow's watchful eye, Hungarian reformers are unlikely to move any faster. Says Marton Tardos, one of the country's most respected economic analysts: "If the government is bold, we can set the economy on the right track. But I am not sure it can or wants to be bold." Yugoslavia...