RFE/RL Daily Report
                   No. 214, 10 November 1994

HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN MILITARY COOPERATION. A meeting of the
Hungarian-American working group dealing with questions of defense
opened in Budapest on 9 November by Hungarian Defense Minister
Gyorgy Keleti, MTI reports. Keleti stressed that Hungary is
determined to join NATO. He also pointed out that only the
Hungarian air force has been supplied with the kind of detectors
that reach NATO standards. US Ambassador to Hungary Donald Blinken
called attention to the fact that Hungary's integration into the
rest of Europe is very important for the US. Blinken said that
Budapest has taken big steps toward membership in NATO and noted
that the US would provide help for improving the Hungarian defense
sector. -- Judith Pataki, RFE/RL, Inc.

[As of 1200 CET] 

(Compiled by Sharon Fisher and Pete Baumgartner)
Copyright 1994, RFE/RL, Inc. All rights reserved.

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date=11/8/94
type=background report
number=5-18697
title=Berlin Wall/Soviet Union
byline=Peter Collins
dateline=Moscow
content=
voiced at: 

Intro:  The Berlin Wall would not have been built but for the 
presence of 340 thousand Soviet troops in East Germany.  Moscow 
ordered it built in August, 1961, to stop refugees from flooding 
out of its client state in East Germany.  As a United States army
officer in the mid-sixties, V-o-A's Moscow correspondent Peter 
Collins patrolled the western side of the Berlin Wall.  He offers
this perspective on how its fall marked the beginning of the end 
for the Soviet Union.



Text:   Communism was finished.  That's what it was.  No one in  
Berlin on that historic day five years ago, or watching around 
the world on television, could fail to see that.

Not even in the capital of communism -- Moscow.  It was the 
Soviet leader -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- who perhaps inadvertently 
caused the Wall to fall.  In October of 1989, he visited East 
Berlin.  His host was the unapologetically hardline communist 
leader Erich Honecker.

He did not share Mr. Gorbachev's hope that after 7o years of 
failure, communism could be made to work with some tinkering 
around the margins.  The Soviet president kissed Mr. Honecker on 
the lips.  In private, Mr. Gorbachev hinted broadly that the East
German leadership should do what he was doing in Moscow, 
reforming the system, opening up. "Glasnost", it was called.  If 
the East Germans failed to do so, he suggested, they would end up
defeated and defunct.

In public, Mr. Gorbachev used one of his favorite phrases, "Life 
punishes those who delay."  Such hints can spark a revolution.  
Within  hours after he had left for Moscow, an uprising had begun
in East Berlin, with angry demonstrators chanting, "Freedom! 
Freedom!"

One month later, the Wall was gone.  Four months later, the 
Soviet empire was gone.  Two years later, Mr. Gorbachev himself 
was gone. 

The Berliners' example pushed along gathering revolutions in 
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and the 
Baltics.

Of course the collapse of communism had been long in coming, 
creeping up almost invisibly on history.  But to those American 
soldiers who patrolled the Wall in the sixties, that possibility 
seemed utterly inconceivable. Impossible.  That dark, grey, grim 
wall looked as solid as the huge granite Soviet war memorial at 
Treptow in East Berlin.

It was at Treptow just three months ago that Germans and Russians
gathered for a ceremony marking the final retreat of the Red army
from Germany.  The last of the 340 thousand Russian soldiers to 
come home were given a parade in Moscow, but little else.

Among the many problems Russia has inherited from the collapse of
its  empire is a disgruntled army with little sense of mission 
and literally few decent places to house its officers and men.

Now Russia -- shorn of its empire -- is struggling to make do 
without the wealth and captive markets it lost in its satellites.
It is a painful course, and while the events in Berlin five years
ago, were not the cause...The fall of the wall marked the start 
of it all.

(Signed)

08-Nov-94 7:58 pm est (0058 utc)
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source: Voice of America

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Szia Mindenki!
Ime a svedek ellen probalkozo keret!Mit mondjak,van benne nehany 
meglepetes.
Mondjuk,Kiprich,aki a Feyenoordban csak a kispadon ul mostansag,vagy 
ott sem.Detari aki a svajci Xamaxal mostanaban tobbnyire csak kikap 
vagy betlizik.
Vagy a Kovacs Kalman,aki az utobbi nehany meccsen sokszorosan 
alulmulta sajat magat.
Vagy Klausz,aki meg imadott mesterenek a Magusnak,aki favorizalta 
ot,sem tudott bizonyitani.
Nos,ok probalnak meg szembeszallni jovo szerdan azokkal a 
svedekkel,akiknek kerete,szinte megegyezik a VB-n szereplo 
csapattal,aholis-nota bene!-harmadikok lettek.
Hat a Meszoly lelke rajta!
Akkor hat a tarsasag:
Petry(Gent),Brockhauser(Kispest),Hajdu(Csepel) < kapusok
Kozma,Szlezak,Berczy(UTE),Mracsko(Bekescsaba),Meszoly(Le 
Havre),Lorincz(Molenbeek),Lipcsei(FTC),Duro,Banfi(Kispest)
Vaczi(Csepel) < vedok,
Halmai(Ekeren),Detari(N.Xamax),Illes(Kispest)
Veber(UTE),Urban(Mechelen)<kozeppalyasok
Kiprich(Feyenoord),Klausz(A.Wacker),Kovacs K.(Kispest)
< csatarok
Hat,lehet elmelkedni azon,hogy mire lesz kepes ez a tarsasag!
Udv!
szoltan o.z.

Zarofordulo a csoportmerkozeseken.
Eredmenyek:
1.
Hajdunanas - Fuzesabony 3-1,Nyiregyhazi Volan-Nyirmeggyes 0-0
Tovabbjutott:Hajdunanas
2.
Kisvarda - Tiszamenti SE 3-1
Tj.:Debrecen
3.
Ferencvaros - Tiszavasvari 7-0
Tj.:FTC
4.
Szegedi VSE - Mezohegyes 6-4
Tj.:Bekescsaba
5.
Kiskundorozsma - Farmos 2-3
Tj.:Vac
6.Gyor - Haladas 2-1
Tj.:Gyor
7.
Ujpest -MTK 1-1
Tj.:Ujpest
8.
Stadler FC - Lanycsok 13-1
Tj.:Stadler FC
9.Vasas - Salgotarjan 2-1
Tj.:Vasas
10.
Csepel-Tiszakecske 1-1,Jaszbereny - Sulysap 0-1
Tj.:Csepel
11.Sopron - Keszthely 1-1,Petohaza-Csakanydoroszlo 4-1
Tj.:Keszthely
12.
Parmalat - Matav Sopron 2-0,Tapolca -Fuzfo 1-0
Tj.:Parmalat
13.
Kispest - Lajoskomarom 7-1,Kiskoros -Gazmuvek 2-1
Tj.:Kispest
14.
Pecs - Paks 3-2,Barcs - Lenti 2-3
Tj.:Pecs
15.
BVSC - BKV Elore 2-1,Szigetszentmiklos-Kalocsa 2-2
Tj.:BVSC
16.
ZTE - PVSK 3-0,Marcali-Gerjen 1-0
Tj.:ZTE
A nyolcaddontobe az NB I-esek kozul csak a Sopron nem jutott be.
A kovetkezo fordulokat nov.23.-an es 30.-an jatszak le,itt mar 
egyenes kieseses rendszerben bonyolodik a dolog.A parositast ma 
keszitik el az MLSZ-ben.

Meszoly Kalman behivta a svedek ellen keszulo keretbe Sandor Tamast 
 a DVSC-bol.

Ifjusagi EB - selejtezo merkozes:
Magyarorszag - San Marino 4-0
A magyar csapat ezzel megszerezte a csoportelsoseget.

Mara ennyit,udv!
szoltan o.z.