This week, the first freely elected parliament in Hungary since 1945 will convene and begin the difficult process of establishing a new, democratic government in accordance with the mandate given by the voters in elections held on 8 April 1990.
By then they had faxed from the embassy a list of demands to the military government in Myanmar, chiefly to free political prisoners and conveneparliament, and had seemingly accepted that the Thais could do little to further these aims, however admirable.