Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. július-december (35. évfolyam, 27-50. szám)

1981-08-20 / 31. szám

AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, Aug. 20. 1981. 2. William J. Mitchell ■' An American Reporter in Hungary BUDAPEST, Hungary - Forty-seven children have been turned away this year from the Menyecske Street Kindergarten, where 245 students are fining classrooms designed for only 185 .................... THE MENYECSKE Street Kindergarten was built seven years ago to accommodate children from a new housing project, one of many Budapest high-rises built to ease the capital’s still severe housing shortage. Offering a mix of what, in the United States, would amount to child care and nursery school as well as kindergarten, the school is open from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 6 a m. until 2 p.m. Saturday. Surrounded by the high-rise apartment buildings, the one-story school is a bright, well-equipped chil­dren’s home away from home. On a recent morning, some children were making greeting cards and others were preparing for field trips aimed at teaching them how to deal with automobile traffic and how to make their way through a Budapest food market. While the atmosphere is friendly and relaxed, the school’s 15 teachers are expected to guide the children firmly in everything from tooth-brushing (each child has his or her own brush lined up in the miniature washroom) to values and behavior. ___________ THE GOVERNMENT provides five months of fully paid maternity leave (about 80 percent of the childbear­ing women are working, according to government statistics). The mother then has a choice of returning to work (the government pays 50 percent of child-care costs until the child reaches age three) pr staying at home. Mothers who stay at home with their children receive th^equivalent of about $35 a month from the government. Kindergarten isn’t free, but it isn’t all that expensive either. Depending on the income of the parents and the number of children they have, prices range from about 17 to 77 cents a day. (The average Hungarian worker makes between $1,300 and $1,800 a year.) One reason the government encourages kindergar­ten attendance, according to Szappanos, is its role as society’s “equalizer” — similar to the theory behind the pre-kindergarten Head Start program in U.S. schools. “It’s the policy of the government that kindergarten should provide an equal chance to all children,” she said. “Their parents can’t do that because they have different backgrounds.” Let us learn Hungarian— CUSTOM INSPECTION VÁMVIZSGÁLAT Is thai dutiable? I didn’t know. How much have I to pay? Have you any tobacco, spirits, scent, a camera or jewelry? You need not pay any duly on small quantities of tobacco and spirits. Are you bringing in any foreign [Hungarian] currency? Ez vámköteles? Nem tudtam I Mennyit kell fizetnem? Van önnél dohány, szesz, illatszer, fény­képezőgép vagy ék­szer? Kis mennyiségű dohányért és szeszei italért nem kell vámot fizetnie. Van önnél külföldi [magyar] valuta (pénz) ? WORTH REMiMBERIHG “I tremble for my country when I think of it that God is just and when I realize that evildoers sit in power.”- Rev. Philpot. “Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”- Frederick Douglass. • “The industrial system of a nation like its political system should be a government of the people, by the people,for the people. Until the economic equa­lity shall give basis to the political equality, the lat­ter is but a sham.”- Edward Bellamy. TOJHE EDI_ I am the daughter of Andrew Varga from Eliza­beth, N.J. He was a subscriber to the Magyar Szo. He died March 31, in the hospital after being very sick for 25 days with a stroke. He was 89 years old and a very young 89. He looked forward to your newspaper and all that went with it. I would like you to put the news of his death in your obituary column, which I am sure he would have liked very much to be done in his memory. I read, write very little Hungarian, but talk it well. ! - Mrs. Theresa Varga Faber--------------------------- . i> Please find a check for S 20.- for your campaign which you are asking for a $ 50.- donation. But I am very sorry that I can’t send any more money now as 1 I am in the McKeesport hospital where I had two operations. But as soon as I get well, will try and make it up. Thank you for the Hugo Gellert book, it is very interesting. John SzarkaJDuquesne. Pa. We know how Vietnam turned out. A tragedy for that country and for us. The waste of so many lives; of money; of badly needed resources. Way hack in 1965 some 1,200 far-sighted members of District 1199 chipped in a dollar each to publish a message in the N. Y. Times urging a negotiated settlement to end that war. Today, over 6,000 members of District 1199, who see the ominous parallel between Vietnam and El Salvador, have contributed a dollar each to publish this message. Chilling Parallels U S. military support for the Duarte regime “is chilling in its parallels to the early days of U.S. involvement in Vietnam,” according to U.S. Representa­tives Gerey Studds, Barbara Mikulski and Robert Edgar. They told the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee that by far “the greatest respon­sibility for violence and terror­ism re$ts with those forces now receiving U.S. guns, helicop­ters, grenades and ammunition. ... There is absolutely no reason to believe that supplying these forces with more weapons will lead to anything other than an escalation of violence.” In a recent article in the New Yorker magazine, Tom Buckley, reporting from El Sal­vador, writes that throughout 1980 “the number of dead rose to an average of a thousand a month... the overwhelming ma­jority—students, teachers, union organizers, lay religious workers, land-reform techni­cians, members of their fam­ilies, suspects and innocent bystanders—were victims of se­curity forces, the death squads and to a lesser extent, the Army. The bodies were often dismem­bered and otherwise mutilated and bore the marks of torture.” Violence Goes On The saga of violence goes on. An estimated 250,000 people have fled this country of 5,000,000; a country smaller than the state of Massachusetts. The N. Y. Times and the New Yorker have reported eyewitness accounts of the slaughter of men, women and children as they attempted to flee rampaging government troops. It is this El Salvador regime that General Haig’s State De­partment wants us to supply with additional economic aid, arms and more U.S. “advisors”; a regime which suppresses free speech, destroys trade unions and permits the death squads to roam and kill át will. It is this regime that the Administration wishes to embrace as an ally. The Administration, appar­ently, does not wish to embrace the people of El Salvador— landless and oppressed, ruled by a wealthy oligarchy and a brutal military. The Administra­tion’s rhetoric speaks of domi­nos and communist threats in this tiny Central American country. That sort of talk may go over well with those who still want to rattle sabres and fire off guns. But it can’t sit well with the desperate people of El Salvador. We believe that the way of Ronald Reagan and General Haig is the way to another Viet­nam. A tragedy for El Salvador, and yes, another tragedy for us. Only One Course There is only one course. Stop the killing now. Stop send-. ing arms and advisors. Join with such friendly U.S. allies as Mexico, Canada, and many European countries to support a negotiated settlement now. Had we taken such action in 1965—consider how many lives could have been saved—on all sides. _____________________ This advertisement was paid for by voluntary dollar contribu­tions from District 1199 mem­bers who work at the following health care institutions and re­tail drug stores (names for identification purposes only): Albvrt Einstom College ot Medicine. Barsky Medical Group. Beskman Downtown Hospital. Belalr Nursing Home. Belle­vue Hospital Center. Betti Abraham Hospital. Beth Israel Medial Center. Bird S. Coler Memorial Hospital. Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. Bronx Municipal Hospital. Brook- dale Medical Center. Brookdale Village Nursing Home. Brooklyn Jewish Medial Center. Brooklyn Methodist Church Home, Cabrini Medial Center. City Hospital at Elmhurst.ColumbiaUniver5lty.CommunltyHospltal.com- . tnunity Service Society. Coney Island Hospital. Daughters ot Jicob Geriatric Center. Dry Harbor Nursing Home. East Harlem Home Care. Elmwood Manor Nursing Home. Family Planning Center. Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital. Flushing Hospital and Medial Center. Goldwater Memorial Hospital. Gouverneur Health Services Program. Grade Square Hospi­tal. Greater N.Y Blood Program. Greenpoint Hospital. Harlem Hospital. Haven Manor Health Related Facility. Helen SLetter National Center. Hempstead General Hospital. Hillside Hospital. House of the Holy Comforter. Isabella Nursing Home. Jamaia Hospital. Jewish Guild lor the Blind. Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged. Jewish Institute tor Geriatric Care. Kingsbrook Jewish Medial Center. Lemberg Home and Geriatric Institute. Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association. Lincoln Hospital, Little Flower Nursing Home. Long Island Jewish Medial Center. Lydia Hall Nursing Home. Lutheran Medial Center. Lutheran Nursing Home. Maimonides Medial Center. Menhasset Hospital. Maternity Intent Care Family Banning Proiect. Methodist Hospital. Metropolitan Hospital Montclair Nursing Home. Mount Sinai Medial Center. Mount Vernon Hospital. Monteflore Medial Center. Nine Eaton United Palsy Center. N.J. Blood Center. N.Y Blood Center. N.V. Medial College-Valhalla N.Y.U. Medial Center. Ortho Institute. Peninsula Hospital Center. Presbyterian Medial Center. Pryne Health Center. Public Health Research Institute. Ramapo Manor Nursing Center. Richmond Memorial Hospital. Roosevelt Hospital. St. Barnabas Hospital and Broker Memorial Home. St. Claire Hospital. St. Johns Ouaens Hospital. St. Johns Episcopal Hospital. St. Johns Episcopal Hospital South Snore. St Luke's Hospital Center. Sephardic Home. Shield of David Bronx. Shield Institute. South Oaks Hospital. Southside Hospital. Staten Island Hospital. Sunrise Manor Nursing Home. United Odd Fellows and Rebekah Home. United Presbyterian Residence, ttehiva University Hospital. Boyd Chemist. Cembridge Chemist. Center City Pharmacy. Charles Chemist. Concord Chemist. Co-Op Pharmacy. Courtesy Drug Store. Oeal Pharmacy. Dial Drug. Drug Guild. Drug Loft Pharmacy. Du Barry Pharmacy. Fair Trade Pharmacy.Trod Grober Pharmacy. Gardner Surgical. Glen Rock Pharmacy. J & H Roaen Pharmacy. Konwaler & Son Pharmacy. Leif Drug. Liggetts Drug. Lincoln Souare Drug. Marty Pharmacy, Mishkin a Drug Store. Morton Village Pharmacy, Nescott ot Vonkers, N.Y.U. Hospital Pharmacy. Paritsr a Magna Pharmacy. Pathmark Pharmacy Paulding Pharmacy. Rabinowitz Pharmacy. Rubin Chemist. Safety On» Sitver Rod Drug. Siltan Pharmacy, S and R Hiarmacy. Thrmway Drug. Whelan Drug Company. Windsor Drug. 57,002 Gl’s were killed; 153,329 were wounded and uncounted billions of dollars were spent on that tragic war in Vietnam. Are we going to let the same thing happen in El Salvador today? AMERIKAI , MAGYAR SZO USPS 023-980 ISSN 9194-7990 Published weekly, exc. last 2 weeks in July and 1st week in August by Hungarian Word, Ine. 130 E 16 St. New York, N.Y. 10003. Ent. as 2nd Class Matter, Dec. 31.1952 under the Act of March. 21. 1879, at the P.O. of New Yórk, N.Y. Szerkeszti a Szerkesztő Bizottság Előfizetési arak New York városban, az Egyesült Államokban és Kanadában egy evre 15. dollár félévre 8.— dollár Minden más külföldi országba egy évre 18 dollár, félévre 9.50 dollár Postmaster* Send address changes to Hungarian Word, Inc. 130 E 16 St/ New York, N.Y. 10003.

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