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91/1987/E/ 13ttiJuly, 1987

New Ho^se-Search and "Oar-Check" in Budanest

V/hilst representatives of the independent Hungárián press have demanded in two declarations thai: radical political and economic reforms be introduced, the political police excercise név/ measures to silence the underground press. Yesterday, July 12, Sunday afternoon at 2 pn, presumably acting on previous information the police searched a cár in Budapest's XlIIth dis- . trict hy right of traffic control. The cár had been parking in the Street. Following this, a nearby fiat was searched under the name of "premise control".

A duplicating machine , used and apparently out of order v/as found and confiscated by the police. The passangers were nőt allowed to leave the cár, they were compelled to sit there fór four hours. They were József Talata and Gyula Bartók, editors of the samizdat periodical "Égtájak között"/Between Directions/.

In the meantime the police launched a long and thorough search in a nearby fiat, in the absence of its tenant, and confiscated a number of periodical-covers, stencils, dye and blank sheets of paper. In the fiat there wag MikoltaPognár, the third editor of "Égtájak között". At 6 pm they were all taken to the XlIIth dis- trict police station. Here a warrant was written, somewhat be- latedly to authorize the "car-check", and a report about the con- fiscation of the duplicating machine. This statement was signed by two v/itnesses fór the authorities although no such persons were present at the police action.

/ Gyula Bartók, Mikolta Bognár, and József Talata wished to duplicate the latest issue of the "Égtájak között", v/hich v/as given the apposite subtitle of "Crash Landing". The név/ issue contains the following pieces:

In the "Anti-politics" column György Konrad’s "Notes on Fost- Communist Democracy", a studyj alsó "Freedom" a poem by an author under the pen-name Barnabás Vas. In the column "Society-Army- Freedom of Goncience" four documents v/ere published concerning the criminal case of Zsolt Keszthelyi, who had refused to perform his military service; a study by Károly Kiszely entitled "Society- Army-Freedom of Concience" and two poems b^^ Tibor Upor Bállá, called "Vulgáris". The column was illustrated by tv/o drawings of Ervin János Lázár and József Talata, dating from their days in the army, in 1973.

The column "A small Hungárián emergency" brought out reports of the house-searches, follov/ed by a study of the same title by Jenő Nagy, and a poem by László Rusai entitled "Intő a World I burst". In the literary column, called "Bice Word" there v/as a short play written by Arthur Miller to Václav Havei, and more poems by Andris Sütő who had recently passed away in Transylvania undex* obscure circumstances.

The periodical's last column is entitled "Publicitv" » v/hich con- tained the proposal of the joumalists and TV and rádió employees concerning a reform of publicity. The article "In Piacé of'Conver-