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27 August 2011

HUNGARY: After Toxic Sludge Disaster...Kolontar Is Revived...With Promises Kept.

                                           BBC/ N. Thorpe

     Last October, an aluminum factory's toxic red sludge nearly covered homes (above)...in Kolontar in Western Hungary.
     On a visit after his nation's worst environmental accident...new PM Viktor Orban promised that everyone would be compensated with new homes or the cash equivalent.
     Unusual for a politician today...Orban kept all his promises.

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