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DATE: MONDAY, December 13, 1993                   TAG: 9312130096
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY                                LENGTH: Short

JOZSEF ANTALL, LEADER OF HUNGARY, DIES

Prime Minister Jozsef Antall, who led Eastern Europe's most enduring and stable post-Communist government, died Sunday after a long struggle with cancer. He was 61.

The state news agency MTI said Antall died at the Budapest hospital where he had been treated since Nov. 23. He died of heart failure, MTI said.

President Arpad Goencz announced he was appointing Interior Minister Peter Boross, 65, as acting prime minister.

An uncharismatic but forthright politician, Antall kept Hungary on a centrist course as Eastern Europe's new democracies struggled, sometimes violently, to emerge from decades of Communist repression. - Associated Press 


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