Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1982. január-június (36. évfolyam, 1-25. szám)
1982-04-08 / 14. szám
Thursday, April 8. 1982. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZO 11. Facts about Cuba President Reagan, in his recent speach before the OAS, gave us his political analysis of the Caribbean nations, in which he said, among other things, “the dark future is foreshadowed by poverty and repression in Castro’s Cuba...”. There can be no worldwide standard definition of poverty, since the peoples of the world still live at vastly different levels of development. However, the amount of food consumed per person, is about as universal a standard as we can find, since people must, as a minimum, survive, before they can learn that they may or may not be impoverished in other respects. The following tabulation of food available per person was obtained from the most recent data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). COUNTRY CALORIES PROTEIN FAT Cuba 2635 (gms) 68 (gms) 54 Nicaragua 2446 ”0 58 Mexico 2655 66 60 El Salvador 2048 54 43 Guatemala 2020 53 38 Honduras 2106 52 39 Haiti 2102 51 30 It is certainly revealing to note that the people of Cuba eat as well as the Mexicans, and that the peoples of those countries whose present governments are under guerilla seige, eat about 25 % less. In the 23 years since the Cuban people won their revolution, and rid themselves of the fascist Batista- regime, they have achieved a higher level of food consumption than any other Caribbean country. What has prevented the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, etc. from achieving the same success, with their “free” political systems, in the same 23 years period? Cuba does not have to export arms to El Salvador to instigate revolution there, as claimed by the U.S. State Department in its famous White Paper, now proven to have been false. Cuba has only to bring peoples from those countries to visit and explore its countryside (as I did in a recent two-week visit) in order to convince them that revolution is the only way that they will achieve a better way of life. They will see nurseries, elementary schools, health clinics, vast housing construction, electricity, paved roads, and yes, television antenna on thatch-roofed huts, all over rural Cuba. The program for economic development of the Caribbean area proposed bv President Reagan is no different from those proposed bv previous administrations in the last 20 years. If we really believe in a people’s right to self-determination, as stated in our Declaration of Independence “... that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”, then the most moral and humanistic policy for the United States is to allow the peoples of Central and South America to work out their destinies without our military and economic interference. B.S. A WARPED IMAGE The massive propaganda campaign against the socialist countries, presumablv directed at Poland, is engineered by President Reagan’s apostles, the obedient support of a battery of professional con men representing the mass media. They keep the populace “locked in” through “newsbreaks” at intervals of one hour around the clock, designed to impress the American people with a warped image of life “behind the Iron Curtain”. They want people to shoulder the full burden for armament extravaganza and accept a tax structure favoring the rich, glaringly revealing upper-class cynicism toward the lower strata of society, Reagan reneges on his promise of a dialogue with the Soviet Union on the issue of disarmament and peace, forced on him by pressure of world public opinion. The tragedy of our times is to'have a man at the helm of a nation wielding awesome power, a man that can be described as a mediocre actor in Hollywood and a bad actor in Washington, D.C. He lightly conducts affairs of state as though he were enacting a scenario in one of his pictures. Yet, people still accept automatically the cultivated false image of America. “America the Beautiful” is a conditioned reflex! Although possessing the wherewithal to attain the heights in moral leadership of the world, the USA, impelled by greed in economic and political circles, has become the citadel of reaction, following Nazi Germany in a bid to reverse the course of human progress toward a medieval concept of class domination. Power and wealth tend to fuel the process of degeneration and led the way to the extinct Roman Empire. . _ Joseph sparacino (Letter from the “Churchman”, March 1982.) WANTS MORE HUNGARIAN MATERIAL ON ENGLISH PAGE Until you folks started the English page in the Magyar Szó, I never looked at it because I don’t read Hungarian. Now I find it quite interesting and informative However, I have one suggestion. Whatever you publish on the English page about American issues, such as peace, Reaganomics, Cuba, labor problems, etc. we can find in the American press. What I am looking for is information about the native land of my folks. So please let us have more articles on Hungary and less about American and world issues. J.Palagyi, Conn. REV GROSS’S MEMORY I am writing on behalf of my dear mother who will be 82 years young this coming September. She would like to thank everyone at the Hungarian Word for the wonderful paper that you publish but alas, she was very disappointed that not a word was mentioned for the 80th anniversary of Rev. Gross whom she thought so highly of. She hopes that it was an oversight and that mention of him will appear in another edition. Both my sister and I do read Hungarian, but it is always such a pleasure when she reads aloud of some very interesting article. She sends her best wishes and continued support. Thank you. Enclosed please find a money order for $ 30.Edith Szeler, Montreal, Canada • I have enclosed a check for $ 25.- in memory of my mother, Mary Csorba. Throughout her ordeal she was courageous, kind, and never lost her sense of humor. I will miss her. Malvina Csorba New York,NY Which of These Are You? by Barbara Perrotte Some members work to keep their union strong While other just belong. Some dig in, some serve with pride- Some go along just for the ride. Some volunteer to do their share, Some lie back and just don’t care. Some do their best, some help, some make; Some do nothing, only take. Some greet new members with a smile While others go their merry way and rarely have a kind word to say. Some help their leaders do and show, When asked to help don't say no. Some drag, some pull, some don't, some do. CONSIDER WHICH OF THESE ARE YOU. Barbara Perrotte is Local 420 Chapter Chair at Lincoln Hospital. Let us learn Hungarian I’m fagged out. Ki vagyok merülve. I’m nearly asleep. Már majd elalszom. I’m exhausted. Ki vagyok merülve. Are you a good [bad] Jó [rossz] alvó? sleeper? I have to take something Be kell vennem valami' to send me to sleep. hogy aludni tudjak (tuggyak). I oversleptfthis morning). Elaludtam (ma reggel He fell asleep in a Egy perc alatt elaludt minute. Well, I’m going to bed. Na, én lefekszem. If you’ll excuse me, I'll be Ha megengedi, én már getting to bed. lefekszem.------------------------------------------------------------------------J I Newyorki magyar hentes i !TIBOR’S MEAT SPECIALTIES' j (FORMERLY MERTL PORK STORE) ! I 1508 Second Ave., j NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 j a 78. és 79. utcák között Tel: RH-4-8292 j FRISS HÚS, HURKA iS FELVÁGOTTAK j 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT hungarian folk dance ensemble SATURDAY, APRIL 17,1982 8:00 PM MONTCLAIR STATE COLLEGE MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM VALLEY ROAD & NORMAL AVE UPPER MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY DONATION: S 6.00 SENIOR CITIZENS: $ 4.00 ___________STUDENTS: _________________________
