The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1983-10-01 / 10. szám
fall Hungarian intellectuals were arrested and badly beaten and released only because of international pressure, including letters from Members of Congress to President Ceausescu. We appeal to you to raise the issue of human and cultural rights violations with the Romanian authorities based on their obligations under the International Covenant on Civic and Political Rights and the Helsinki Declaration of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe of which they are signatories. With best regards, we are sincerely, Michael Barnes (D.MD.) Don Ritter (R. PA.) and 219 signatures.” Due to lack of space we are unable to list the names of the 219 Congressmen who stood up for the rights of tthe Hungarians of Transylvania. However, the complete list was published in the July 30 issue of the Hungarian language weekly Magyarság published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On August 1, 1983, Congressman Bill Frenzel (R. Minnesota) presented to the Congress a “preferential motion” calling for an “indefinite postponement” of the motion to consider House Resolution 256, according to which the renewal of the Preferred Nation Status would have been denied to Rumania. (Perhaps the gentleman from Minnesota, who was one of the co-signers of the above letter, felt that Secretary Schultz should be given time to solve the problem of the Transylvanian Hungarians through the diplomatic channels.—Editor.) The motion to postpone House Resolution 256 was voted upon, and passed with 279 votes. Thus the President’s recommendation to renew aid to Rumania for another year, prevailed. Here are the names of those Congressmen who voted against the renewal: Andrews, D. N. Carolina Applegate, D. Ohio Badham, R. California Barnard, D. Georgia Bartlett, R. Texas Bethune, R. Arkansas Biaggi, D. New York Bilirakis, R. Florida Bliley, R. Virginia Boner, D. Tennessee Britt, D. North Carolina Brown, R. Colorado Broyhill, R. N. Carolina Burton, D. California Campbell, R. S. Carolina Carney, R. New York Clarke, D. N. Carolina Coats, R. Indiana Corcoran, R. Illinois Courier, R. New Jersey Craig, R. Idaho B. Crane, R. Illinois Ph. Crane, R. Illinois Daniel, D. Virginia Dannemeyer, R. Calif. Daub, R. Nebraska DeWine, R. Ohio Dickinson, R. Alabama Dreier, R. California Duncan, R. Tennessee Early, D. Massachusetts Edwards, R. Oklahoma English, D. Oklahoma Fields, R. Texas Franklin, R. Mississippi Gaydos, D. Pennsylvania Gingrich, R. Georgia Gramm, D. Texas Green, R. New York Gregg, R. New Hampshire R. Hall, D. Texas S. Hall, D. Texas G. Hansen, R. Idaho J. Hansen, R. Utah Hartnett, R. S. Carolina Hefner, D. N. Carolina Hiler, R. Indiana Holt, R. Maryland Hopkins, R. Kentucky Huckaby, D. Louisiana Hunter, R. California Jeffords, R. Vermont Jones, D. Tennessee Kasich, R. Ohio Kemp, R. New York Kindness, R. Ohio Kramer, R. Colorado Lagomarsino, R. California Latta, R. Ohio Leath, D. Texas J. Lewis, R. California T. Lewis, R. Florida Livingston, R. Louisiana Lloyd, D. Tennessee Lott, R. Mississippi Lujan, R. New Mexico Lungren, R. California McCollum, R. Florida McCurdy, D. Oklahoma McDonald, D. Georgia McEwen, R. Ohio McGrath, R. New York C. Mack, R. Florida Marriot, R. Utah D. Martin, R. New York Miller, R. Ohio D. Mollohan, West Va. Montgomery, D. Miss. Moorhead, R. California Morrison, R. Washington Mrazek, D. New York Murphy, D. Pennsylvania Myers, R. Indiana Nichols, D. Alabama Nielson, R. Utah Oxley, R. Ohio Packard, R. California Parris, R. Virginia Pashayan, R. California Patman, Texas Paul, R. Texas Quillen, R. Tennessee Rahall, D. W. Virginia Ritter, R. Pennsylvania Robinson, R. Virginia Roemer, D. Louisiana Rogers, R. Kentucky Roth, R. Wisconsin Rudd, R. Arizona Schaefer, R. Colorado Schulze, R. Pennsylvania Shelby, D. Alabama Shumway, R. California Shuster, R. Pennsylvania Smith, R. Oregon R. Smith, R. Oregon Snyder, R. Kentucky Solomon, R. New York D. Staggers, D. W. Virginia Stenholm, D. Texas Stump, R. Arizona Sundquist, R. Tennessee Talion, D. S. Carolina Thomas, R. California Valentine, D. N. Carolina Vandergriff, D. Texas Volkmer, D. Missouri Vucanovich, R. Neveda Walker, R. Pennsylvania Watkins, D. Oklahoma Whitehurst, R. Virginia Whitley, D. N. Carolina Wise, D. W. Virginia Wolf, R. Virginia Wortley, R. New York Young, R. Alaska The American Chapters of the Transylvanian World Federation as well as other Hungarian organizations expressed their heartfelt gratitude in several public meetings towards those Congressmen who, in true American spirit, took the side of the oppressed against the oppressor. THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY III
