Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1991. január-június (45. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1991-05-30 / 22. szám
8. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, May 30. 1991. ORVOS A CSALÁDBAN ( EGY KIS HÁZITORNA) Semmittevés helyett Egy kis aktivitást, aktiv pihenést ajánlunk mindazoknak, akik a tévé előtt töltik estéiket. Az ajánlott gyakorlatok nem gátolnak a figyelésben sem minket, sem a körülöttünk ülőket. O Ültünkben jól hátracsúszunk a széken. Két kezünkkel egyre lejjebb fogunk a szék lábán es lapockánkat jól összezárjuk. Közben a nyakunkat nyújtjuk, fejünket felfelé nyomjuk. Feszitünk és lazítunk többször egymás után. e Ültünkben helyezzük lábunkat székre vagy asztalra, hogy a vízszintesnél magasabban legyen a lábunk, amelyeket tornáztatni kezdünk. Lábfejünket lefeszítve "spiccelünk", majd felfelé húzva "pipálunk" többször egymás után. Ezt kővetően kifelé-befelé körözünk bokából. végül összeszoritjuk a lábujjainkat - mintha valamit fogni akarnának, majd széttárjuk a lábujjakat ÖtszÖr-tizszer. Ez( a gyakorlat nemcsak, hogy felfrissíti a fáradt lábakat, de a vissze- res lábak vérkeringését is javítja Q Ülöhelyzetben maradva lábunkat a földre tesszük és bokánkkal megpróbáljuk a szemközti szék lábait szétfeszíteni. (Ezt a gyakorlatot ülőmunkát végzőknek munka közbeni pihentetésül is ajánljuk.) NB 1. LABDARUGÓMÉRKŐZÉSEK EREDMÉNYEI 27. forduló, május 25. HONVÉD - SIÓFOK , 0:1 RÁBA ETO - Úp. DÓZSA , 0:1 VIDEOTON-WALTHAM - TATABANYA 2:1 VASAS - PÉCS , 1:0 VESZPRÉM - BÉKÉSCSABA 3:0 VÁC-DEBRECEN , 2:1 VOLÁN - FERENCVÁROS 1:1 MTK-VM - SZEGED 2:0 THE HUNGARIAN AMERICAN OBSERVER Ministry aims to hit it off A new state-sponsored company, HIT Co, Ltd. has been set up to extend the information network for people from abroad interested in doing business in Hungary. It is a spin-off from the existing Tradeinform and Investcenter in Budapest. For the details we turned to HIT general director Gabriella Falus. Since Tradeinform which you formerly headed, was set up, the Ministry of International Economic Relations started its own inhouse division to promote trade and investments. How do these fit in with your work? Within the Ministry, there's the Investment and Trade Promotion Agency. It decided to set up this new company. To have, as it were, a company in the front line to help foreign investors and business communities abroad know how to do business in Hungary. What does HIT stand for? The Hungarian Company for Investment and Trade Promotion. It includes the previous offices and its main aim is to provide all kinds of information about Hungarian foreign trade and help foreign investors to get to know the rules and decrees that regulate investment opportunities here. It endeavours to identify all the development plans and where foreign capital is required. So we try to bring Hungarian and foreign partners together. We are not just one of the many companies here dealing with the promotion of investment. We can provide different kinds of useful information. We are really an organization that is impartial. We are not profit-oriented. We are available to anyone who would like to come to Hungary, but does not know how to start. We act as a sort of match-maker. We help business partners during their negotiations to overcome bureaucracy, right up to the signing of an agreement How would you sum up your activity in 1990, when you formerly headed the Tradeinform Office? I am pleased to say we increased our contacts both in Hungary and abroad. We have an open-service. This means anyone-can come in and ask any question. We helped a lot of business people to find partners in Hungary and find out how to start. We publish several booklets on subjects of interest to Hungarian businesses and organize different kinds of seminars. What are HTPs plans for 1991? Our aim is to improve all our services and to cover Hungary as a whole in a much more organized way. We already have offices in each of the 19 Hungarian counties. It is also our aim to establish contacts with foreign databanks. We have our own databank, which we operate with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, on who is producing what and what is produced by whom. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future, given the high inflation rate in Hungary? As far as investment opportunities are concerned, I am quite sure Hungary will still be attractive for foreign capital. For example the recent devaluation of the forint by 15 per cent helps to balance inflation for foreign investors. With its highly skilled labor, tax breaks and other regulations ensuring concessions, I feel Hungary will remain attractive. In addition with the new agreements with Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and other former socialist countries, we are now trading in dollars. This means Hungary can really be a bridgehead to enter those markets, helping west European and overseas companies to set up business relations, because Hungarian companies do have the expertise. This factor should also be considered by potential investors, and not just the Hungarian market, which is rather limited. L. Scott ON CIVIL RIGHTS DAVID DINKINS, Mayor of New York City Throughout the course of our nation's history, countless wrongs have been inflicted upon people because of their race, their sex, their religion, their national origin or their sexual orientation. Indeed, if there is a stain upon the flag of our republic, it is that for too long Americans shielded their eyes to the pain and the bloodshed, covered their ears to the cries and suffering, blocked their hearts to the sorrow of lives lost and dreams broken when discrimination reigned in our land, Much, of course, has changed. Much has improved. One could argue that the mountaintop of which Dr. King spoke, finally has come into view. But to have sighted that mountaintop is not to have scaled it. That is why the friends of justice in Congress introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1990. As of late, our nation's courts have blown cold on the cause of civil rights. At best, their rulings have been contradictory. At worst, they have tended to set back the clock. As a matter of definition, a civil rights bill ought to redress and remedy civil wrongs. Not so, says President Bush in his veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1990. The President argues that the bill "employs a maze of highly legalistic language, language to introduce the destructive force of quotas into our national employment system." The President is wrong. This is no quota bill. It is a justice bill. It is a fairness bill. It is a rights bill. As passed by both the House and the Senate and sent to the Oval Office, the Civil Rights Act of 1990 explicitly states that nothing in it "shall be construed to require an employer to adopt hiring or promotion quotas." Plain English could not be much plainer than that. We cannot rest until this measure becomes the law of this land, for none of us is free until each of us is free.
