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director of the governmenl Inloi mállón Office inveighed agalnst it at a "HUNGÁRIÁN OCTOBER" . , INFORMATION CENTRE press conference and when Huni|arlan Rádió and the official press thought György Krassó jf necessary to launch an allack 011 II. 29/D Lltlle Russell Street . , _ , .... ... London WCIA 2HN Hungárián October Information Centre newsletters will be available United Kingdom to all those interested froin January Ist 1988. In a year at least 120 newsT el. 01-930 2 1 26 , , . , ^ . letters and Iwo more extensive special Issues w111 be published in Hungárián and English. The subscription rnle fór six months which covers production Dear Sir / Madam, costs (minimum 60 newsletters and a spe< lal issue) is 20 pounds sterling The Hungárián October Information Centre began fór individuals and 36 pounds sterling fór institutions (10 1 discount fór operating in October 1987, on the 31 th anniversary of the Hungárián one year or two language suliséi Iptiori). All those who subscribe írom revolution, in London. It has issued 52 newsletters of differing lengths January Ist 1 988 will récéivé a FREE copy of "The Hungárián Scene 1986in the last 3 months about life in Hungary: the most important events 1 987", a 250 page volume. Suhscribers will récéivé the issues every in Hungárián politics, economy and culture (see the enclosed list of titles). two weeks by first eláss mail in England and by airmail abroad; postage The semblance of stability in the Kádár-system is based chiefly on false js jncluded in the subscription rate. An Immediate news service is available information which has been distributed fór decades. The official press by special request - by express mail, telegramme or telephoné, and the Hungárián Press Agency supply distorted and inadequate Dear Sir / Madam, If you are really Interested in our news service information which foreign journalists take at face value. Those who have bút cannot afford to pay the subscription, please inform us and tried to speak the truth have been imprisoned, diseredited abroad, and complimentary copies will be serit. isolated. We draw your attentlon to Hungárián October Freepress publications Six years ago - in 1981 - a free independent press was established - volumes of literature, politics and graphics, copies of the Hungárián in Hungary, a duplicated Samudat which defied all police persecution independent press publications (sainizdat), postcards, cassettes, badges, nőt only surviving bút gaining strength and maturing. Fór years only etc. -, free information about the above will be sent to those Interested. one unofficial periodical appeared - Beszélő (The Talker) - bút now those----------- London, December 1987. interested can choose from nőt less tlian ten independent regular journals. Ilappy New Year Bút samizdat only reaches a few thousand, chiefly Budapest, readers and due to police harassment reports on daily events can often only be Hl^ly issued after great delays. Up untll now the Hungárián Opposition could Tbe Editor nőt supply daily information and its independent publications were nőt available abroad either. In the last months the Hungárián October Information Centre has endeavoured to rectify this by issuing rapid, precise, reliable and objective daily newsletters which are based on carefully checked information received direct from Hungary. The Hungárián October Information Centre does nőt employ self-censorship nor does It submit to any form of censorship: it reports the truth and just the truth. The newsletters issued in English and Hungárián are regularly published In Hungárián Democratic Opposition periodicals, independent publications in other Soviet block countries, emigré journals, foreign papers and are continuously broadeast on Hungárián language western i adio stations. Bút its greatest acknowledgement was bestowed by the Hungárián authorities when the
