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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.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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