While packing my bags, I realized that the kind author of this message told me to use his/her name, but never told me what it was. Roger ---------- From: owner-pen-l To: pen-l Subject: Re: Yugoslavia and Hungary Date: Friday, April 03, 1998 2:14PM In Slovenia you may contact: Andreja Crnak Meglic Faculty of Social Sciences Institute of Social Science Kardeljeva ploscad 1 1000 Lubjana phone 386 61 168 3118 Her first name is pronounced 'Andreya'); she is knowledgeable about the local NGO scene so she may be able to help you making a few contacts (she speaks good English). Just mention that you got the reference from me, otherwise she might be surprised. Regards, At 02:19 PM 4/3/98 -0800, you wrote: > > My adult son and I will be spending three weeks in Slovenia, Hungary, >Western Rumania ( >Cluj area), Trieste and the Czech Republic with a car rented in Munich on >May 22. This is considered a professional junket since I teach Comparative >Economics (Andy Zimbalist - when do we get a new edition?) and my son is a >beltway bandit trying to get a job as a high school social studies teacher ( >a 1997 Masters from American University). I've been in Eastern Europe before >(Pecs, Budapest, Southern Transylvania and the Slovenian coast on a >Fulbright program for teachers from provincial universities in 1989), but I >am particularly interested in persons worth meeting (especially those >critical of the new order) and places worth seeing, especially in Slovenia. >I would like to try for a sabbatical in Slovenia, so that I could at least >learn the language in a few years. Unfortunately, I have done no research >since I left Chase Econometrics 15 years ago, so this may be a pipe dream. >Any help would be appreciated. > Roger Even Bove > Dept. of Economics/Finance > West Chester Univ., W. Chester PA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dr. S. Wojciech Sokolowski Institute for Policy Studies Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 voice: 410.516.4056 fax: 410.516.8233 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]