Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2003 (15. évfolyam, 4-49. szám)
2003-06-13 / 24. szám
American Hungarian Journaf Volkswagen to End Production of Beetle Next Month “Their Lives Are an Open Book” Clintons Enter a New Phase Stuttgart, Germany (dpa) - German car manufacturer Volkswagen plans to cease production of the VW Beetle next month, the Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported in its recent issue. The last VW Beetle will leave the production line in Puebla, Mexico at the end of July, marking the end of a nearly 70- year history and more than 21.5 million cars, the newspaper said. At present, only 53 Beetles daily are being produced in Puebla. A VW spokesman said the production of the car was nearing the end, but the exact time had yet to be decided. The last Beetle to be made in Europe left the production lines in Germany in 1978. Book Prepared to Honor Retired Archbishop Budapest (MTI) - A book published to commemorate the life of Cardinal László Paskai, retired archbishop was presented to him by his successor, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest Peter Erdő, at a ceremony in Budapest on Friday. The title of the volume is Paskai’s own motto “In virtute spiritus” (the power of the Soul). Members of the St. Stephen Academy, Paskai’s former students, his former fellow teachers, and researchers wrote the Volume to honor the life of the cardinal, who celebrated his 76th birthday this month. Fans Riot After Ferencváros- Debrecen Game One Player, One Coach Hurt Budapest, (MTI) - MTI has learned that Lazar Szentes, chief coach of the Debrecen soccer team was taken by ambulance to the nearby Merenyi Guszav hospital, where he was released after treatment. Meanwhile, two hours after the game ended, furious fans left the stadium and continued rioting in the streets. They set fire to a billboard and attacked firefighters called in to quell the blaze. A police backup was needed to protect the firefighters. László Szieben, director of the Hungarian Football League called the rioting unprecedented and impermissible. Final Standings for 1 - 6 place: l.MTK 32 20 6 6 59-34 66 points 2. Ferencváros 32 9 7 6 50-24 64 3. Debrecen 32 13 14 5 57-38 53 4. Újpest 32 15 7 10 54-41 52 5. Siofok 32 12 11 9 46-44 47 6. Gyor 32 9 9 14 41-50 36 (The New York Times) With the publication of her book “Living History” about her years in the White House, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton provided new fodder for reporters and put the Clintons back in the tabloids. Pictured to the right: Former U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton with her husband, President Bill Clinton, following an address he gave in 1999. According to Mrs. Clinton ’s associates, the senator is now preparing for her own run in 2008. WASHINGTON - With the tabloid headlines about her marriage, the Sunday primetime interview with Barbara Walters and the promise of a cover story in Time magazine, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton rode the wave of an extravagant publicity campaign. It befits the publication of a book for which she was paid $8 million. But in many ways, the Clintons’ friends are saying, it is not only a memoir by a former first lady that is being rolled out. It is also the Clintons embarking on the latest chapter in a public life that has made them an object of admiration, scorn and puzzlement since the former governor of Arkansas ran for president and sold them as a “buy one get one free” team of public servants. Mrs. Clinton is dealing with an issue, her husband’s infidelity, which she has until now rarely addressed in public, and which her own advisers viewed as a hindrance to a public career that they would like to see end back in the White House. And by design or not, her book arrives at a time when her husband appears to be ending a self-imposed moratorium and taking more of a hand in national Democratic politics. The Clintons spent much of the first 30 months of the Bush presidency keeping a low profile and trying to avoid the storms that engulfed Mr. Clinton’s presidency. But that period is now coming to an end, as they try in different ways to assert their presence in American politics, and embark on promoting books for which they were paid advances totaling close to $20 million. Mr. Clinton’s memoir is to be published in 2004. The personal nature of Mrs. Clinton’s book suggests they are about to define a new period in a relationship that has long been a source of gossipy speculation and that even their closest friends describe as enigmatic. In addressing her husband’s infidelities in her book, “Living History,” Mrs. Clinton publicly addressed a subject she steadfastly refused to discuss by invoking what she had called a zone of privacy. When the going got tough in the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton got busy. The former first lady threw herself into her duties partly to escape all the cascading troubles, she says in her new memoirs. In Living History, the New York senator also talks about her determination to play a policy role in her husband’s administrationand takes some responsibility for “botching” health care reform. She acknowledges being insensitive at first to those who felt she was taking the role of first lady too far off the traditional course. Mrs. Clinton declined to say how much involvement Mr. Clinton had in preparing the manuscript, or whether he had even read it. “He and I always talk about everything,” she said. “I’m not going to comment on the process. Anyone who knows us knows that we work together on everything.” Asked if Mr. Clinton would now join her on the promotional tour for the book, Mrs. Clinton burst out laughing. That was one question, Mrs. Clinton said, that she had not considered. THE SHADOW OF CORRUPTION ON BÁLINT MAGYAR (MN) “During the past weeks several cases have come to light which cast the shadow of corruption on Bálint Magyar, Minister of Education”, said Róbert Répássy (Fidesz) who wrote a letter to the Prime Minister about the suspicious cases. Péter Koltai, commissioner of the minister partly refuted the charges, partly recognized the ‘administrative error’ committed in the ministry. Bálint Magyar proposed yesterday that invitations of companies that are probable business partners should not be accepted anymore. Róbert Répássy MP said, “The shadow of corruption has been cast on Bálint Magyar, because he does not try to examine the suspicious cases in his ministry, rather he tries to conceal and cover them up”. Mr Répássy outlined the contents of his letter to the Premier and referred to the press news that Bálint Magyar, Anita Hriczu, his cabinet chief, Péter Racskó, the head of the Subnet Programme Office, and Péter Koltai commissioner spent a nice weekend as guests of Elender Ltd, the present chief contractor of the Subnet national school internet programme. Times’s Two Top Editors Resign (NY Times, AP) HOWELL RAINES and GERALD M. BOYD, the top-ranking editors of The New York Times, resigned five weeks after the resignation of a reporter set off a chain of events that exposed fissures in the management and morale of the newsroom. In a hastily arranged gathering in the newsroom on the third floor, the newspaper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., told staff members that he wanted to “applaud Howell and Gerald for putting the interests of this newspaper we all love, above their own.” Mr. Sulzberger said that Mr. Raines, 60, who was the paper’s executive editor for less than two years, would be succeeded on an interim basis by Joseph Lelyveld, 66, his immediate predecessor, who retired in 2001. There will be no immediate successor for Mr. Boyd, 52, who was the paper’s managing editor. A spokeswoman for The Times said that the search for a permanent executive editor was likely “to move quickly” — other company officials said it could be a matter of weeks — and that candidates .would be considered from inside and outside the paper. For the staff members of The Times, the resignations set off a. wave of emotions from sadness to relief, and prompted several dozen journalists from competing news organizations to stake out the entrance of its headquarters, at 229 West 43rd Street. In one sense, the developments were something of a shock. At a town-hall-style meeting on May 14 — three days after The Times had described in an extensive article how Jayson Blair, a staff reporter, had made errors or committed the equivalent of journalistic fraud in at least 36 articles since October — Mr. Sulzberger told the newsroom staff that he would not accept Mr. Raines’s resignation if it were offered. But in the days and weeks that followed, some of the newspaper’s reporters and editors said they told Mr. Sulzberger that the newsroom’s disaffection with Mr. Raines was so deep as to be irreparable. Mr. Raines and Mr. Boyd led the newspaper’s coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the collapse of Enron; and the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia. In addition, the two men took on additional responsibilities during their tenure, overseeing the editorial operations of The International Herald Tribune. (The New York Times Company, which already had owned half of that newspaper, bought the rest from the Washington Post in January.) Fourteen months ago, The Times was awarded a record seven Pulitzer Prizes, six related to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. But after the deceptions of Mr. Blair were brought to light, including the plagiarizing of articles from other newspapers and news agencies and the concocting of quotations, long-simmering complaints about the management style of the editors rose to the surface. Small Plane Crashes into Hollywood Apartment Building A plane crashed into a densely populated area of Los Angeles Friday afternoon. Four people died, at least seven were injured. The 6-seat Beechcraft Bonanza had taken off from nearby Santa Monica airport. Shortly after takeoff, it went into a spin and crashed nose first into a three-story apartment building in the Fairfax District, in the 600-block of North Spaulding Avenue. It sliced through the two living levels of the 14-unit building, and settled on the ground floor. The pilot’s body was found atop a car in the garage. The house immediately erupted into flames. Neighbors, gardeners working in the area, a coach from nearby Fairfax High came to the rescue as residents struggled to flee the flames. A Jewish volunteer rescue team also pitched in, although their religion prohibits to do work on the Sabbath). Some residents jumped out of windows unto the concrete floor. TO OUR READERS: PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HÍRLAP WILL NOT BE APPEARING ON JULY 11 AND 18, 2003, BECAUSE OF THE ANNUAL SUMMER BREAK. June 13, 2003
