Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2002 (14. évfolyam, 4-45. szám)
2002-05-31 / 22. szám
AMERICAN lUás*^3\1 7co2^^>^i[ Hungarian Journal The outposts of the world and our national cemeteries across continents are marked with memorials to heroic individuals to whom we pay tribute and for whose self-sacrifice we thank God. They secured for us the road to freedom. However, the free society we enjoy to live in is ultimately based on the capacity of people to govern themselves in a framework of civil order which arises from interaction of responsible people eager to strengthen the fabric of international cooperation, too. For practical illustration of genuine humanitarian impulses, let me direct your attention to the American soldier wounded on a battlefield in Europe. He owes his life to the Japanese scientist, Kiasato, who isolated the bacillus of tetanus. A Russian soldier saved by a blood transfusion is’indebted to Mandsteiner, an Austrian. A German is shielded from typhoid fever with the help of a Russian, Metchnikoff. A Dutch marine in the East Indies is protected from malaria because of the experiments of an Italian, Grassi; while a British aviator in North Africa escapes death from surgical infection because a Frenchman, Pasteur, and a German, Koch elaborated a new technique... Our children are guarded from diphteria by what a Japanese and a German did; they are protected from smallpox by an Englishman’s work; they are saved from rabies because of a Frenchman. From birth to death they are surrounded by an invisible host - the spirits of men and women who never thought in terms of boundary lines and who never served a lesser loyalty than the welfare of mankind. In Galatians 6:2 we read: "Bear ye one another burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Although life grows continually more close-knit and interdependent all around the world, increasing imagination is required to visualize our neighbors. Also it takes increasing imagination to think of ourselves as responsible for neighbors we shall never see. What we need is a Christian conception of brotherhood. In Christ, God has broken into human history. A great deal of sentimental nonsense is written and spoken these days about "Christian community." Even among those who are in Christ, community remains incomplete and inperfect in this life. Still, however, community in Christ - that’s the answer to every man’s quest, the only answer ever since that first outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. ************************* News of the American Hungarian Foundation Dr. Milton Friedman of the Hoover Institute and Dr. Tibor Scitovsky of Stanford University to Receive the Abraham Lincoln Award this Sunday from the American Hungarian Foundation SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - Dr. Milton Friedman and Dr. Tibor Scitovsky will each receive the Abraham Lincoln Award from the American Hungarian Foundation, a national Hungarian cultural organization, on Sunday, May 26, at an Awards Brunch at the Stanford Faculty Club, Stanford, California, announced former U.S. Congressman Ernie Könnyű (R-Saratoga), Chair of the Award Brunch and member of the Foundation’s Development Council. Dr. FRIEDMAN, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University, is a second-generation American Hungarian whose parents immigrated to the United States from Hungary. He is the 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science and recipient of many honors including the Presidental Medal of Freedom in 1988. Dr. SCITOVSKY, a distinguished economist, is a retired professor from Stanford University and professor emeritus from University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Scitovsky was born in Hungary, his extensive, research and writings focused on welfare economics and became a critic of consumer economics. ERNIE KÖNNYŰ, who was also born in Hungary, said that the Abraham Lincoln Award recognizes outstanding and eminent contributions which persons of Hungarian background and ancestry have made in particular to the American way of life. It seeks to honor persons whose contributions are in the broad field of human knowledge, the arts and to the betterment of mankind. Könnyű noted some other recipients of the Abraham Lincoln Award include Dr. Leslie Koltay, former chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College system, Dr. Miklós Rózsa, Oscarwinning film composer, Sir George Solti, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, and Maestro Christoph Von Dohnanyi, music director and conductor of the Cleveland Symphony. Könnyű concluded, "This is a special occasion for American Hungarians in this region for this is the first time the Foundation will have held the awards ceremony in the San Francisco Bay area. Persons wishing to purchase tickets to the Awards Brunch at $125 per person should contact me at 408-244-3299, e-mail: premcolor@msn.com." Hon. ERNEST L. KÖNNYŰ, Chair Hon. EVA VOISIN, Co-Chair Fr. MAURUS NEMET O.S.B., Co-Chair Mrs. ILONA MAGYARI, Co-Chair Muslims Split Over Suicide Bombers (AP) Muslim countries were split over whether to condemn Palestinian suicide bombers as terrorists Monday at the start of a major international Islamic conference on terrorism. However, the delegates passed an unanimous resolution accusing Israel of "dragging the region toward an all-out war" and calling for U.N. sanctions to deter Israeli military action. Fault lines appeared immediately as the Palestinian representative disagreed with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the meeting's host, who said that suicide bombers killing Israeli civilians should be condemned. "It is not necessary to condemn the suicide bombers, because we have to take into consideration the reasons behind somebody willing to lose his life," Palestinian Foreign Minister Farouk Kaddoumi told reporters at the conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is "the highest and worst kind of terrorism, and the human being, if he sacrifices his life - there must be a reason," Kaddoumi said. "The reason is state terrorism." Deputy Foreign Minister Ivica Misic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, chief of his country's anti-terrorism team, disagreed. "I don't care about race or religion," Ivica said. "I agree that if a person kills or harms a civilian he is a terrorist, no matter how noble his struggle may be." An attempt to paper over the divisions resulted in the resolution condemning Israel for aggression in the Palestinian territories, but the conference risked bogging dcwn under an old question: when is a terrorist a freedom fighter? Mahathir, a vital U.S. ally in the campaign to crack Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, called for agreement that any attack on civilians - by the Sept. 11 hijackers, Israel's army or Palestinian suicide bombers - be labeled terrorism. 15 Israelis of Hungarian Origin Killed (European Internet Network) - A group of Israeli citizens of Hungarian origin were among the victims of a terrorist bomb which left 21 people dead and more than 100 injured last March in Netanya, according to the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv. The Embassy initially estimated that three people of Hungarian descent had died, but as authorities identified victims in the aftermath of the explosion, the number rose to 15. The Jewish town was established by mainly Hungarian immigrants. "The Hungarian Foreign Ministry and public were shocked to hear of the suicide attack which killed 21 people and turned the Passover celebration into a period of mourning - Foreign Ministry spokesman Gábor Horváth said. 'The Foreign Ministry shares the grief of the victims’ families, and rejects such acts in the strongest possible terms," he continued. "So many hundreds of deaths have proven that the establishment of peace and a long-term solution to the Middle East crisis is unachievable by way of terror and violence. ************************* INVITATION Dear Friends - Please Come to the CSARDAS HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT for a wonderful evening of music and entertainment with GERRIE PEDRINI, International Song Stylist LÁSZLÓ CSER, Piano * TOM PEDRINI, Bass on May 31, 2002, starting at 7 p.m. ************************* Century Cosmetics A medical spa that specializes in serious skincare and luxurious pampering. Aesthetic procedures performed under the supervision of one of the country's foremost plastic surgeons. 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