WORLD : Gasoline Protest Snarls Hungary
Taxi and truck drivers blockaded Hungary’s border crossings and paralyzed cities today in a confrontation with the government over a sudden 65% increase in gasoline prices.
Taxis blocked five bridges across the Danube in Budapest and the road to the airport. Official sources said access to the main frontier posts with Austria, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia was almost impossible.
The government has to buy oil on the world market at prices inflated by the Persian Gulf crisis to make up a 30% shortfall in cheap supplies from the Soviet Union.
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