OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 6, 26 February 1996

PROMINENT HUNGARIANS CRITICIZE DRAFT SCREENING LAW. More than 100
prominent Hungarians from Hungary and abroad on 2 February addressed an
open letter to Hungarian authorities warning that the cabinet's draft
screening law is lacking in various respects, Hungarian media reported.
The signatories pointed out that the draft law allows citizens only to
look at files kept by the internal security service, while those
maintained by other intelligence services will remain inaccessible. The
bill is soon to be discussed in the parliament. Among the signatories to
the letter were chairman of the Slovak Coexistence movement Miklos
Duray, poet Gyorgy Faludy, historian Ferenc Fejto, philosopher Agnes
Heller, and Bishop Laszlo Tokes from Romania. -- Zsofia Szilagyi

BIG MONEY NEEDED FOR BOSNIAN RECONSTRUCTION. Nasa Borba quotes Bosnian
Prime Minster Hasan Muratovic as stressing that Bosnia needs a lot of
money and soon. Muratovic estimates the bill at $3 billion per year for
the next five years, and he quoted a World Bank projection of $5.1
billion in emergency aid for the infrastructure alone. Onasa on 30
January had cited the transportation minister as saying that if he gets
the money, his first priority will be to rebuild the Ploce-Mostar-
Zenica-Doboj-Tuzla road connection and then the railroad that links
Ploce via Doboj to Hungary, Banja Luka, and Tuzla. He dismissed ideas
about building a new railroad system independent of the Republika Srpska
and called for the reconstruction of the prewar route. -- Patrick Moore

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Compiled by Jan Cleave