RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 2, No. 127, 3 July 1998

SLOVAK PARLIAMENT REJECTS BILL LIMITING HUNGARIAN EDUCATION.
The Slovak and Hungarian opposition, supported by some
representatives of the governing Movement for Democratic
Slovakia, voted down on 2 July an amendment submitted to the
parliament on Hungarian-language education in Slovakia. The
bill, drafted by the Education Ministry, would have required
Hungarian pupils to study history and geography in Slovak
and use a curriculum and text books approved by the
ministry. MSZ

DOWNTOWN BOMBING KILLS FOUR IN BUDAPEST. Entrepreneur Jozsef
Tamas Boros and three pedestrians were killed when a bomb
exploded on 2 July in Budapest's downtown tourist zone. Some
25 people were injured. Media report that Boros, the owner
of several restaurants in Budapest and at lake Balaton, was
the target of the bombing. He had recently provided useful
information to the police in an investigation into organized
crime and illegal oil trade. Three attempts had been made on
his life in the past two years, and his home was guarded by
police. In other news, Prime Minister-designate Viktor
Orban, on 2 July outlined his coalition government's program
in the parliament. Top priorities are strengthening the
defense of public security, tightening the penal code, and
remedying social injustice. MSZ

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