1988. 271. szám (1988.10.30.) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_3

- 2 As the Nagymaros dam will block the free flowing of the Danube, the drinking water of about one third of the Hungárián population will be polluted fór ob- taining a three percent increase of the country’s electricity supply, which in any case will nőt be available until 2015* Meanwhile in order to fináncé this economic fiasco Hungary has to increase by 1/5 her indebtedness already the greatest; if counted per capita^ all over in East Central Europe.

The dam at Bős will alsó destroy 12700 hectars cf forests aad hundreds of small islands, the habitat of 135 species of rare birds including egrets, while the accumulating pollution in the water will kill the remaining fish in the Danube.

It is remarkable that even the Stalinist Ern8 Ger# has declared already in 1952, that a Hungárián person must nőt sign any treaty fór the building of the dams at Bős and Nagymaros.

It is nőt surprising however, that the Hungárián Academy of Sciences has always and consistently opposed the building of the dams even on the 6th Gctober 1988 i.n the building of the Hungárián parliament as did the representative there from the Cári Marx Economic University in Budapest.

The building of the Bős and Nagymaros dams could be continued only with the scorning of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences, as if 1988 had been in the Dark AgeB and nőt in Age of ástronautics.

This further dissipating of the Hungárián economic resources and mis- management of the Hungárián econony, the endangering of the strategic security of the Hungárián Capital, the pollution cf the drinking water cf one third of the Hungárián population, the violation of the reál freedom of navigation on the Danube and the memory of the Hungárián monarchs depends on the guarantee of the loans which ars needed by the authorities in Budapest to build the dams,

This guarantee depends on Austria and we bég Austria to impedeihese disasters fór the sake of future generations, fór the sake of the better understanding beti'teis the peoples of Austria and Hungary, fór the future of Hungary and the future of Central Europe, where Austria led a leading relé fór centuries.

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