Word: marton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can offer the protection and blockingthat Fiedler, Hoffmeister and Marton need, theoffense could return to its former level ofpotency...
...Hungarian standards of living are lower now than in 1979. A huge budget deficit is also spurring concern. One odd result is that the government is under fire for not being tough enough. "Programs that shock the populace are unavoidable, but the government has sought to avoid them," laments Marton Tardos, parliamentary leader of the opposition Alliance of Free Democrats. Still, the government's measured if plodding approach is expected to make Hungary the first post-communist country to see its economy actually grow...
...POLK CONSPIRACY by Kati Marton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The former newswoman and wife of TV anchor Peter Jennings uncovers new information about the 1948 murder of CBS journalist George Polk in Salonika bay, Greece -- and fresh evidence of a cover-up by the Greek and U.S. governments...
...years circumstantial evidence and plain common sense have pointed to agents of the ruling Greek Royalist Party, then conducting a civil war against communist guerrillas. The Polk Conspiracy supports this view. So why, after all these years, should one bother to read more about it? Because Kati Marton, in spinning a real-life thriller, brings fresh material and renewed outrage to < one of the fascinating stories of the cold war. She also points the finger at a surprising cast of collaborators...
Doubt still obscures the affiliations of the man who actually pulled the trigger. But Marton's diligent research provides a convincing case against those who allowed the killers to go free and others who shared responsibility for covering up the truth...