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...year. So by the time convoys of ZIL and Chaika limousines were finally streaking through the yellow brick streets of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, the meeting last week was embarrassingly overdue. The Political Consultative Committee, made up of Communist Party leaders from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union, had been expected to gather in January. But Mikhail Gorbachev's predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko, was too ill to travel then, and indeed died only a few weeks later. By contrast, Gorbachev impressed his Warsaw Pact comrades with the vitality and ease of command he has demonstrated...
Although it has one-third more manpower than NATO, and twice as much armor and artillery, the pact is evidently under considerable strain. When the signatory nations met last April in Warsaw to formally renew the alliance for 20 more years, Nicolae Ceausescu of Rumania let it be known that he favored an extension of only five years. Many East Europeans view the 535,000 uniformed Soviet soldiers stationed in their countries as an army of occupation. That impression is reinforced by the ultimate control exercised by Soviet officers during military maneuvers, which are conducted four times a year...
Between eruptions, most East Europeans have come grudgingly to terms with their fate. They can even point to gains achieved after "liberation." The Communist regimes have all but conquered illiteracy, which stood at 40% in Hungary before the war and even higher in Rumania. They guarantee their citizens a free education, a job, free health care and an old-age pension. Says Hungarian Dissident Writer Gyorgy Konrad: "Peasants who used to go barefoot and hungry now drive cars and own homes...
...them. Slaney wished Budd luck before the race, and afterward complimented her young opponent: "I think Zola ran a good race tonight. I'm glad that she was competitive." But tougher competition may still be waiting down the road. Among the top runners missing from Saturday's race was Rumania's Maricica Puica, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in 8:35.96, 3 sec. slower than Slaney's time last week. Budd, who had predicted before the race that she would lose, was glad to see the rematch over. "It has taken a lot of pressure off both...
...AIDS patients from the U.S. and elsewhere. Some patients have flown to Mexico to be treated with other drugs supposedly effective against AIDS but not approved for use in the U.S. Some sufferers have spent small fortunes on obscure rejuvenating treatments in Switzerland and sheep-gland injections in Rumania, or have turned to holistic healers, megavitamin therapists, even voodoo doctors and spiritualists. Doctors caution AIDS patients about quackery but understand why their advice is often ignored. Says Dr. Michael Lange, an infectious-disease specialist at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan: "If I were told that I was going...