Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall, 61, who led Eastern Europe's most enduring and stable post-communist government, died of cancer Dec. 12 at a hospital here.
Mr. Antall, an uncharismatic but forthright politician, kept Hungary on a centrist course as Eastern Europe's new democracies struggled, sometimes violently, to emerge from decades of communist repression.
His Hungarian Democratic Forum (HDF) won elections in 1990 that swept reform communists from power and installed a center-right coalition. He described himself as a patriotic, liberal Christian democrat.
In a letter to the national HDF leadership just a day before he died, he said Hungary was on the mend after a century dominated by wars and dictatorship. …
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