Taxes: Two Can Play

Notified that U.S. diplomats in Hungary were restricted to an 18-mile zone around Budapest, the State Department dispatched a curt note: "Effective immediately, members of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in the United States . . . are prohibited from staying "or traveling beyond a specified area except by express permission . . . The designated area is fixed at a distance of 18 miles from the White House, Washington, D.C."

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