Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1982. január-június (36. évfolyam, 1-25. szám)
1982-06-24 / 25. szám
Thursday, June 24. 1982 AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ 11. “THE NOTCH GROUP” Paul Ehrlich és Anna Ehrlich nevét ekológiai es környezetvédelmi szakértő körökben mindenütt iol ismerik: a Stanford Egyetem biológiai és népesseg- tanulmányi professzorai, akik sok kutatást végeztek a hatvanas években a környezet befolyásáról az e- gészségre. Írásaikat többnyire csak szaklapokban közölték, de újabban rendszeres rovatot Írnak a Mother Earth News folyóiratban, amelyből az első cikk a rák elkerülésének lehetösegevel foglalkozik. Ebből közlünk kivonatokat. Tudósok az utóbbi időkben rájöttek arra, hogy a legtöbb fajta rákbetegség oka a környezetből ered. A rák és a környezet közötti kapcsolatot először 1775-ben Sir Pereivel Pott állapította meg, amikor felfedezte, hogy kéményseprők az átlagos lakosságnál gyakrabban betegszenek meg herezacskó rakban. ' Másodszor száz évvel később állapítottak meg, a- mikor észrevették, hogy a festékanyagokkal dolgozók közti gyakori rákbetegedest a festékanyagok okozzák. Kiderült, hogy a bennük lévő vegyi anyagok hasonlóak a koromban levő anyagokhoz, amivel a kéményseprők állandó érintkezésbe vannakAzóta a környezetbeli karcinogenok (rákokozo anyagok) listája óriási méretekben megnovekedett. Ezek a felfedezések nyilvánvalóan mutatják, hogy a rák elleni hadjáratban sokkal ésszerűbb elsősorban a környezetbeli rákkeltő anyagok redukálása, mint a kétségbeesett és sokszor meddő rákkutatás. Ha valaki rákban akar meghalni a cigarettázás a leggyorsabb, legkönnyebb módja annak meggyorsitasara Ne higyjen senki a cigarettagvarosok allitasanak, hogy csak viszonylagos kapcsolat all fenn a cigarettázás és a rákbetegség kozott. Állatokon végzett kísérletekből nagyon sok adat arra mutat, hogy a dohányzók fiatalabb korban halnak meg. így aki személyes rákmegelőző stratégiát akar folytatni, jól teszi, hogy ha a dohányzást abbahagyja. Az is segit valamennyire, ha elkerüljük a dohányzókat. Ezenkívül, ha valakinek módja van válogatni abban, hogv hol el jen, nagyobb esélye van a rák elkerülésére, ha a füstös várostol távol, ipari telepektől, amilyen messzire csak lehet telepszik le. Különösen a vegyigyarak környékét kerülje el. Azbeszt anyagok közelében se lakjon, habár néha nagyon nehez elkerülni. Az etkezes egy másik alkalmat nyújt a rak eselye- nek csökkentésére. Vannak mar bizonyítékok arra, hogy olyan étkezes, amiben kévés az allati zsir és sok a rost, csökkenti a fogékonyságot a belrak kifejlődésére. Ha étkezését még A és C vitaminokkal dúsítja, ez még nagyobb lehetőséget ad a betegseg elkerűlesere, bár ezek a vitaminoknak a hatasa meg távolról nincs bebizonyítva. m._ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ '_ _ _ _ • J _ * ._ We noticed the following letter in the Norwalk, Conn, daily. We believe it will be of interest to our readers, especially those born between 1917 and 1921. I have been wondering how many people who were born during the years from 1917 to 1921 are aware that they are the scapegoats of one of the most diabolical schemes to save the social security system that the Congress has ever dreamed up. How many of these peope, known as the “notch group’, realize that they have been selected in the most discriminatory act ever passed by Congress to receive substantially reduced social security benefits just to bolster the billions of dollars needed to support the social security system during the 80’s? That is a well-hidden fact that the cowardly authors of that act have kept from public knowledge these many years. Unbelievable as it may seem, anvone in this “notch group” can verify the truth about their substantially reduced social security benefits bv calling the Social Security Administration today, after the initial shock. Each person shoidd then sit down and write letters to Stewart McKinney, Lowell Weicker and Christopher Dodd to support legislation to undo this most hideous hoax ever perpetrated upon the American people. In fact, now is the time for that “notch groüp” to band together to bring about a class action to overturn the unconstitutional aspect of this law by challenging it through the courts and, if necessary, to the Supreme Court itself. It should be. quite obvious that every member o! Congress must be fully aware how obnoxious, abominable and detestable it must be to exploit the “notch group” merely to serve their own devious purposes. The mere fact that not a single member of Congress has ever revealed the existence of the “notch group” section of the law clearly illustrates how shameful such an action must be. Now is the time for every person, between the ages of 61 and 65 to stand up and let this country know that the “notch group” will not tolerate being used as the sacrificial lamb to salvage the social security system. Everyone should be reminded that the “notch group” has been supporting the social security system since its inception in 1937, thirteen years before credits toward benefits are even coun ted. Now that group has become the victim of the system, destined to receive less social security than any American has ever received or for that matter ever will receive. Tex Marcus THE INNOVATION MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY Fome time ago János Fekete, first deputy chairman of the National Bank of Hungary, was interviewed on the occasion of establishing the Innovation Fund I The Fund’s objectives and operations will be described below, In the interview the banker pointed out that Hungary spends the same proportion of its Gross National Product on research and development as do the Unites States or Federal Germany, However, in exploiting research results, Hungary figures at the bottom of the list in Europe. There seems to be nothing wrong with the talent or mental energy of Hungary’s 30.000 odd scientific researchers: the problem lies in the interface between research and the economy Somewhere in between enormous amounts of energy and money ooze away. When talking of innovation, Janos Fekete quoted a Western banker with a “penchant for philosophy:” “if somebody’s chief concern is how to avoid risk, he will soon be in a position where he has no opportunity to risk.” Many think that this could be applied to the Hungarian economy as a whole. “Risk’1 was a key word in Hungary after the introduction of the new system of economic management in 1968; nowadays the key word tends to be “innovation.” Some think that it is as yet only a word and not practice. Nevertheless, of late, several government measures have been adopted to promote economic innovation. The words “risk” and “innovation ” tend to appear with increasing frequency both in the press and in economic and politological studies. Sociologist Kalman Kulcsár explained the ultimate reason for this in an issue of Magyar Tudomány^ the monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. “Society started the building of socialism at the end of the 40s, the socialist reorganization of agriculture emerged in the late 50s. The new economic mechanism started functioning in the late 50s. The social and economic problems which had accumulated by the end of the 70s constitute a challenge which, in turn, demands social innovation. This challenge manifests itself in the exhaustion of the possible means for solving the accumulated problems inherent in the former structure.” This means that Hungarian society needs overall reforms every ten years or so. Industrialization was accomplished in some 30 years and has produced a vast, although rather clumsy and, in some places dispro - portionate, structure. Its dimensions can hardly be - modified but qualitatively (through intensification) major changes can be brought about. Agriculture has proved to be the most successful economic sector: with its coordination of group and individual activity and its felxible organization it has served as an example to the industrial and the service sectors. The “new economic mechanism ”, based on the principles of greater independence to enterprises, competition, profitability, and so on, made the acceleration of industrial growth possible but, for domestic and outside reasons, this growth came to a standstill in the mid-70s. Since 1979-80 the need for renewal for " innovation * in the broadest sense of the term has again become obvious, and many people have come to the conclusion that in an age of explosive technological development the driving force can only be innovation itself (in the narrower sense) - if we do not want to definitely fall behind the “vanguard" of the world. 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