Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 1995 (7. évfolyam, 1-43. szám)
1995-10-27 / 40. szám
AMERICAN Hungarian Journal Zwack Unióim Announces Donations to the American Hungarian Foundation In September 1995, the importer for Zwack Unicum in the United States, BBI, Inc., began to donate fifty cents of every bottle of UNICUM sold to the American Hungarian Foundation. This innovative program was announced in advertising appearing in a number of Hungarian publications across the country, including the American Hungarian Journal. Craig Boggs, President of BBI, said, "We recently took over the U.S. distribution of Zwack Unicum. In traveling around the country, we found that the brand was no longer available in many places. Customers, particularly those of Hungarian descent, said they’d love to buy Unicum if only they could find it." Boggs then met with Peter Zwack, who recently began distilling Unicum again in Hungary using the original family recipe from 1790. Together they agreed to set up a free "800" telephone number, so that people could call in and find out where they could buy Unicum. They also decided to advertise this new service in Hungarian newspapers and newsletters around the U.S. Boggs and Zwack also talked about Unicum, the Hungarian community, and how they both shared such a rich and valued heritage. Peter said, "I want us to donate fifty cents to the American Hungarian Foundation for every bottle we sell. After all, Unicum is a part of Hungarian culture. I am proud of our country and its traditions." The program was launched in ten Hungarian publications in September 1995, and will run until October 1,1996. If anyone wishes to purchase Zwack Unicum, remembering that fifty cents of every purchase will be donated to the American Hungarian Foundation, they should call BBI at: 1-800-254-4702. (Connecticut) The Balkan TVagedy: Our Blind Spot For Vojvodina It was Mark Almond who observed: "Rarely has there been so much peace-making and so few survivors." George Orwell, a few decades earlier, noted: "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, while giving the appearance of solidity to pure wind." My purpose in writing about Vojvodina is to increase the number of survivors and to expose political language. Vojvodina’s population is greater than Bosnia’s. A multicultural tapestry of Hungarian, Croatian, Serb, German, Roma, Slovak, Romanian and Ruthenian cultures flourished here for centuries. Yet, many maps don’t even distinguish Vojvodina from Serbia, and few in the West know what is happening there, because few reporters ever visit Vojvodina. Yet, the process of ethnic cleansing, which caused the Bosnian tragedy, has also reached Vojvodina. The majority of the over 200,000 Serbs dislodged from the Krajina region of Croatia and from southern Bosnia are being used to extricate the Hungarian and Croatian population of Vojvodina. Why is it that, by attempting to solve one problem (Bosnia), we manage to create two: the destabilizing of both Vojvodina and Kosovo? Why is it that the ethnic cleansing of the Krajina Serbs from Croatia, which our State Department called a window of opportunity for peace, and the ethnic cleansing of the South-Bosnia Serbs, which is a byproduct of NATO’s bombing, might not facilitate peace, and in fact, could draw the neighboring countries of Hungary and Albania into the conflict. Why is it that, in order to make Slobodan Milosevic to sign on to the American-led Contact Group’s peace proposal, he has to be offered a trade-off, at the expense of the Hungarians, Croatians and other non-Serbs in Vojvodina and of the Albanians in Kosovo? To find the answers, we have to understand the mind-set of the bureaucrats in the State Department. In the Kissinger-Eagleburger cookbok, the recipe for solving international problems is to mix one part of selective justice with two parts of alternating determination against and appeasement of the aggressors. Such a recipe usually lacks the salt of an overall plan or of a long range regional concept. Bureaucrats believe that only the victors deserve justice and only the losers can be found guilty. Therefore the Serbs and Croats (in addition to the Muslims) deserve full autonomy within Bosnia, but the minoirities in Serbia, or elsewhere in Central Europe do not. For most of the last 1100 years, Vojvodina was part of Hungary. Only after the dismemberment of the Hungarian Kingdom and the creation of such unnatural entities as Yugoslavia in 1918-20, did Vojvodina become an autonomous region of that federation. According to the 1974 Yugoslav constitution, Vojvodina should be an autonomous province of Yugoslavia (not Serbia!) This autonomy, and that of Kosovo, were arbitrarily rescinded in 1988. Vojvodina is the breadbasket of Serbian-Yugoslavia. It, together with Kosovo, is already its most densely populated region, consisting of the Srem, which was the Austrian province, called Croatia-Slavonia until 1918, Backa, which was part of Hungary, and the western part of Banat, also part of Hungary. The Hungarians did not get involved in the Bosnian war. They did not side with any of the warring factions. Consequently, they are being treated as enemies ky all‘ (To be continued) ENGLISH PAGE by SUSAN JANCSO Your source of news and information since 1989 FIRST HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH 12717 York Ave., Hawthorne, CA 90250 Ph. (310) 355-1475 Adm. Pastor Dr. Béla Bónis, (310) 430-0876; Caretaker: Dr. Béla Bíró, (310) 597-7459 The text of Dr. Bonis’ sermon was Luke 18:9-14 and it focused on "praying with a sideward glance". Jesus’ parable is about the Pharisee whose very goodness was his vice, and the tax collector whose very badness was the occasion of his salvation. The one seems to be a man of virtue; the other is a cheat and a rascal. What is bad about the Good Pharisee? Three things: he is formalistic, resting in his external religious observances, fulfilling over and above the letter of the law, but not its spirit; he compares himself with other people; and he is self-righteous. He praises God that he is not like "this tax collector." Coolly he measures himself with a sideward glance against the publican and is quietly pleased. The tax collector, wrong as he is about so much, has at least got his eyes right. He doesn’t even notice the Pharisee, but is "standing afar off," entirely lost in his poor prayer. Jesus says he "would not even look up into heaven." His eyes are down to his heart, which he is beating with his fist - fitting for a man who knows he is at war with himself. Both men pray about themselves, but one of them is scanning the room, while the other is oblivious to all but his own condition. Indeed, our capacity for smugness is astonishing. In the nation and in the churches, what a rage is on to assure ourselves by who we are not like - not like these "fundamentalists" or "liberals" or "unpatriotics." Jesus’ story is set in a fine little frame. It begins, "Two men went up..." Now two men go down, but only the publican has a justified homecoming. It’s the grand old gospel reversal again: God undoing the order of things as they are in our temples or in our society. OCTOBER 29. 11 a.m.: our regular service; and 3 p.m. in our church there will be a union service of the local Hungarian Protestant churches to celebrate the Reformation. Dr. Bonis will preach. Reception follows. REMEMBER to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night, Oct. 28. Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. We are happy to welcome all of you at the above services. Our prayerful best wishes go to Mrs. Helen R. Bonis, the pastor’s wife, who is hospitalized. A message from Governor George Pataki State of New York Executive Chamber New York bestows grateful recognition upon the members of the Coordinating Committee of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters World Federation and all those participating in the 39th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising Memorial Celebration. In the nearly four decades which have since passed, the significance of that gallant effort for liberty has not diminished. The world community remains inspired by those tenacious freedom fighters who fought so valiantly against the enormous odds of machine-gun fire, tanks and brute military force. We will never forget the thousands of men, women and children who died fighting in the streetes, the thousands who were imprisoned and executed or the thousands of others who were forced to flee their beloved homeland. Many found refuge in the United States of America and embraced this distinguished land and the values which have made it great. The flame of independence which was kindled 39 years ago continues to burn brightly within the hearts and collective memory of proud Hungarian Americans as well as freedom-loving peoples everywhere. NOW, THEREFORE, I, George E. Pataki, Governor of the State of New York, do hereby recognize THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF THE HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS WORLD FEDERATION on the 39th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising Memorial Celebration. George E. 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