Water Pollution Eastern Europe

When Budapest residents switch on their radios each morning for the daily atmospheric report, they are pelted with persuasive arguments why they should never venture outdoors. Air pollution in the Hungarian capital--as in many industrial areas of Eastern Europe--is so dangerous that like conditions in Western countries compel authorities to order people to stay inside.

When Budapest residents switch on their radios each morning for the daily atmospheric report, they are pelted with persuasive arguments why they should never venture outdoors. Air pollution in the Hungarian capital--as in many industrial areas of Eastern Europe--is so dangerous that like conditions in Western countries compel authorities to order people to stay inside.

Moscow has tightened the taps on its much-touted "Friendship Pipeline," cutting oil deliveries to Eastern Europe and inflicting new strains on its troubled relations with erstwhile allies. The abrupt reductions depriving former Soviet satellites of as much as one-third of their regular fuel supplies have boosted both energy prices and anti-Soviet sentiment.

The United States and Western Europe pitched in to launch an Eastern European environmental center Thursday but put the struggling new democracies on notice that they will have to foot the massive cleanup bill largely by themselves. The center's $12-million start-up fund is only a droplet of cure for an ocean of environmental illness gripping the Continent, raining poison on forests and shrouding cities in clouds of industrial smoke.

The United States and Western Europe pitched in to launch an Eastern European environmental center Thursday but put the struggling new democracies on notice that they will have to foot the massive cleanup bill largely by themselves. The center's $12-million start-up fund is only a droplet of cure for an ocean of environmental illness gripping the Continent, raining poison on forests and shrouding cities in clouds of industrial smoke.

Moscow has tightened the taps on its much-touted "Friendship Pipeline," cutting oil deliveries to Eastern Europe and inflicting new strains on its troubled relations with erstwhile allies. The abrupt reductions depriving former Soviet satellites of as much as one-third of their regular fuel supplies have boosted both energy prices and anti-Soviet sentiment.