Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1978. január-június (32. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1978-05-04 / 18. szám
Thursday, May 4. 1978. IO CHOOSE LIFE NOT DEATH Fifty-three percent of our budget is spent on the military—on current needs and past wars. We are paying for these weapons, not our Government. Just one new weapon system, the XM-1 tank, which will cost the American taxpayers close to $ 5 billion, could bail out half a dozen New Yorks, Yet when we ask the Government for help to avert bankruptcy, the Senate Banking Committee calls it a handout. We are told to, tighten our belts, to cut services as if we were beggars, when what we are asking for is a small portion of the money we send to Washington. Unhappily, many people, uneasy over our high defense budget, keep quiet in the mistaken notion that it is good for the economy, that it creates jobs. Actually, the opposite is true. Defense spending creates fewer jobs than the same amount of money spent on domestic programsihousing, schools, public transportation. It produces military hardware that is of no use to the economy at large, it is chiefly responsible for inflation and siphons research and development from the domestic sector, which results in obsolete plants and an inability to compete in foreign markets. During the past weeks the House Budget Comm, has been considering the Transfer Amendment. This amendment proposes to take $ 12 billion from the military budget and use it for domestic needs. With the tremendous amount of money available to the defense establishment for lobbying this amendment has very little chance of being taken seriously unless we, the people, let Congress know we want our money spent for programs that enhance our lives instead of hastening our deaths. ON THE BAKKE CASE By the time these lines appear, the Supreme Court may have decided the case of Allan Bakke, the 37 year old white engineer who is suing the Davis Medical School in California. Bakke claims he is a victim of reverse discrimination because 16 minority students with lower scores than he, were accepted to the Medical School, while he was not. Actually Bakke is a victim of preferred admission just as every rejected students is a victim, because EVERY student who is accepted to medical school is a PREFERRED admission. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that medical schools annually receive between 3000-5000 applications for entrance to the first year class of only 100-150 students. With such a ratio of applicants to acceptees, it is no wonder that most candidates send applications to several schools in addition to the school of their first choice. However Bakke’s brief, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, does not address itself to this aspect of preferred admission. Bakke’s complaint is that 16 minority students, most of whom had lower grades than he, were admitted, though he was not. He considers this to be discrimination against him because he is white. Nazi threat in USA by Susan C. Joseph and Mitch Berkowitz According to Charles R. Allen, noted editor and writer, some 250 to 350 Nazis - who can be directly traced to the deaths of nearly 2.000.000 Jews, unionists, Communists, Socialists and others- are living securely and comfortably in the United States. Many of them are employed by the government which utilizes the destructive skills they acquired enslaving Europe. It was an easy matter, according to Allen, for ex- Nazis to enter the United States;, ordinarily, they did not have to undergo the laborious immigration proceedures faced by most aliens - instead, an agency of the government such as the State Department or the CIA submitted a request and the invited former Nazi would be ushered in by the border authorities. He charged that Nazi war criminals brought here following World War II, did training stints at military centers around the country. Referring to domestic ultrarightists, he said their activities reflected the racism, anti-unionism, violence and plotting of a conservative establishment in economic crisis with no apparent ability to offer solutions. He warned that a potential mass base for fascism exists in our nation that must be counteracted by a well informed, well organized, militant coalition of labor, Black, Jewish and other organizations. In Detroit such a coalition, the Labor- Community Interfaith Council forced the closing of a Nazi recruitment office. Nazi Germany taught the world that small dangerous groups can grow into a holocaust. Small Nazi groups in America have allies such as the KKK, the John Birch Society, and various secret semimilitary organizations. They get inspiration and active support from Nazi war criminals. Together they are the would-be storm troops for the wealthy and powerful forces that seek to block social progress. To expose, resist and isolate them is an urgent job for Americans and for American workers in the first place. Their jobs, their freedom, their very lives are at stake. SPORT 5 Hungary in soccer world series In June this year the World Soccer Cup matches will be played in Argentina, where the finest teams from all over, capitalist and socialist countries, will compete. After several poor seasons, the representative team of Hungary again fought its way into the select group of the world’s 16 best national teams. These 16 teams will meet next month in Argentina to decide which is the world’s best national team, which is the world champion. The teams will start with a round robin of four teams. As luck would have it, Hungary was assigned to a group containing some of the world’s best teams: Argentina, Franc* and Italy. The games start on June 2 with Hungary playing Argentina in Buenos Aires. On June 6th they confront Italy in Mar Del Plata and on the 10th, they play France in the same city. Hungary’s national soccer team The games will be watched on TV by several hundred million soccer fans throughout the entire world. Good luck, Hungarians! “Hajrá, Magyarok!” ADD TEARS TO TOUR LIFE — Proper nutritional practices could add up to 25 years of healthy living to the average American life , according to Nobel Prize laureate and nutrition expert Linus Pauling. “Supplementing the diet with vitamins and minerals, cutting out snacks and in-between meals, and eating breakfast could do wonders”, Pauling said in an interview Tuesday at Wilmington College. “The proper intake of vitamin C, for example, could add up to 16 years to our life span”, added Pauling, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. Pauling said a proper dose of vitamin C is 1.000 milligrams a day. He himself takes 10.000 milligrams daily. □ ID YOU LIKE this first issue of “HERITAGE” ? Would you be interested in receiving future issues? Then please fill out this coupon,also we will gladly send free sample copies to your friend, and relatives. Your name and address............................................ Your friend’s name, and address.............................. (You may send as many names as you wish) Subscription $ 2.- per year o-----AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZO Omitted from the brief is the fact that 36 white students, all of whom had lower grades than he, were also admitted to Davis Medical School. The Admissions Committee, through its screening process, did not consider GRADES ALONE as the criterion for acceptance. Of course, there is nothing new about this. In each university, after the exceedingly qualified applicants have been snatched up, and the obviously unqualified applicants rejected, there remains the large middle group of applicants, from among whom the few fortunates must be chosen. Most schools take into consideration their particular needs, e.g. more athletes, wider geographic representation, offspring of influential politicians or potential financial contributors /also known as the Dean’s “other list”/, etc. These criteria are, and always have been part of the screening process and it is this inequity, inherent in the selection process of which Bakke is a victim -not the relatively new system of setting aside a small number of minority slots for those citizens who, as a result of the pervasive racism in our country, have in the past been excluded from being considered for medical school admission whether or not they were wealthy or wise. Fay Deak
