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- <title>
- May 14, 1990: World Notes:Hungary
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- HUNGARY
- The Pen Is Mightier
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- <body>
- <p> Poland has journalist Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Prime Minister.
- Czechoslovakia has playwright Vaclav Havel as President. Last
- week Hungary also put a writer at the helm. The parliament
- elected Arpad Goencz, an English translator and former
- dissident who spent six years in jail after the 1956
- revolution, as the country's new interim and largely ceremonial
- President.
- </p>
- <p> The center-right Hungarian Democratic Forum, which won 43%
- of the vote in last month's elections, agreed to support
- Goencz, a leader of the main opposition, liberal Alliance of
- Free Democrats, who then called on the Forum's leader to form
- a government. In return, the Forum exacted pledges from the
- Alliance to cooperate when laws require a two-thirds majority.
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- </body>
- </article>
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