1988. április (71-108. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
Utee)is^lf45a^a ©SÍK Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (from abroad 441-430 2126) 77/1988 (E) 9th April, 1988 Four Well-known Critics Of Official Policy Are Expelled From The Party. Police Measures Against The Young Democrats Alliance. On April 8th the Central Control Commission of the Hungárián Sodalist Workers Party expelled Zoltán Bíró Director of the National Széchenyi Library, Dr. Mihály Bihari lecturer at the Law Faculty of the Eötvös LÓránd University, Zoltán Király MP and editor-reporter at Hungárián Television’s Szeged stúdió and Dr. László Lengyel economist and a member of the Financial Research Share Company. The nevspaper Népszabadság (Peoples Freedom) today said that they dissented from Party policy in many crucial areas and had voiced their vievs in forums outside the party thereby damaging Party discipline and unity. These measures are alsó aimed at the Hungárián Democratic Fórum as those expelled were present at the Lakihegy Populist Writers meeting where the Fórum vas founded and they spoke and joined the Presidency. Yesteraay evening Hungárián Television and Rádió. announced that five young intellectuals had received police varnings because - it is alleged - "They launched an illegal organisation", and they have been told to cease their activities. An article in Magyar Hírlap (Hungárián News) enlarged upon this saying that the Young Democrats Alliance (YDA) had a "puzzling programme" and that it is nőt clear what sort of Hungary they want to build and on whose behalf. The article says that the police warning is a display of patience bút it alsó mentions in its closing sentences the "limits of patience". The Young Democrats Alliance vas formed on March 30th by thirty-eight graduates as a "Social organisation". „Social organisations'’are recognised by the constit- ution and the Civil Code and unlike e*ssoci<4.tionx no previous permission to establish them is necessary. Therefore the organisers stressed in the April lst report intended fór the press that their establishing procedure vas absolutely legal. They demand in their programme the construction of a név Hungary in which a rational economic model operates which synchronizes economic efficiency with social policy and which by defending national minorities endeavours to co- operate in the implementation of a demilitarized United Europe. Magyar Hírlap did nőt publish the YDA’s programme. O Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
