WORLD IN BRIEF : HUNGARY : Probe Launched Into ‘Carlos’ Crimes

The chief prosecutor’s office in Budapest ordered an investigation of former Hungarian officials who may have supported the notorious “Carlos” in conducting terrorist acts in the 1970s and 1980s, the news agency MTI said. The office cited at least four crimes, including a 1975 attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna that killed several people, that allegedly were committed by Carlos, the Venezuelan-born terrorist Illich Ramirez Sanchez, and his gang just before coming to Hungary and during their stay. In Parliament last month, a government minister said members of the previous regime--and possibly the late Communist Party leader Janos Kadar--were involved in harboring terrorists.