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...autumn of 1998. Hungary's democratic government, outraged at the treatment of 1.8 million ethnic Hungarians in neighboring Romania, threatens to take back the region of Transylvania by force. Bulgaria backs Romania. Farther north, Ukraine's government is shaken by an ultimatum from Moscow: Hand over all nuclear weapons or face a pre-emptive strike. Hungary and Ukraine turn immediately to their NATO allies for support...
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...Germany alone. "I risked my life to get here," says Anton Lupu, a 33-year-old Romanian painter who made it across the border from Poland and has applied for asylum in Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany. "We didn't come to steal, only to work respectably. The difference between Germany and Romania is the difference between heaven and earth...
...list of "safe countries" conveniently includes such eastern states as Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Thus not only can Germany send unwanted arrivals back to those states, but the "safe" countries will now be much more careful about letting migrants cross their borders lest they be stuck with them. Hungary, for example, turned back 1.3 million people from farther east over the past year because Austria and Germany will not accept them. Austria, in turn, has tried to stop Bosnians from using it as a route into Germany. Measures adopted in Vienna this year make...
...Their main focus," says a report by the security service of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, "will be information gathering in the scientific- technical realm." Agents from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania are still operating in Germany, says the report, as are those from China, "especially at universities." In a warning that probably applies to all industrialized nations, the German security report says Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria are running clandestine intelligence operations aimed at "the development of atomic, biological and chemical weapons...