****************** CALL FOR ACTION ****************

Priority:
  URGENT

Background:
  The simultaneous integration of Romania and Hungary into NATO is in
the best interest of our Transylvanian Hungarian brethren, of the
region, and of our peoples and countries. This is also recognized by
the RMDSZ and by Hungarian politicians of the government as well as of
the opposition.
  Unfortunately, Romania is rarely mentioned when Western politicians
talk about NATO expansion. Members of the Romanian Lobby, who formed
an organization under the name of  "Diaspora Romana" will forward
documents sustaining Romania's integration into NATO in the first
wave to selected members of the American Congress on Capitol Hill, on
June 10th,1997.They asked for our help in supporting them.
Now we have to act URGENTLY.

What to do:
  Please sign the following document  in which are stated that we,
members of the Hungarian Lobby support  Romania's integration into
the NATO. You may do that by sending a message/reply to this document
with Your name, and address (city,state,country) to Peter Orban:



The names and addresses will be totalized under a letter-document and
forwarded to the Diaspora Romana by Friday,June 6,1997.

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send reply to:

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To:                                         June 6th,1997
     Diaspora Romana,
     806 E.Carson Street#118-109
     Carson,CA 90745
     Phone:(310)549-0547
     Fax:  (310)549-6231
     E-mail: 


   Members of the Hungarian Lobby are deeply interested in the
future of East-Central Europe, and recognize the need for simultaneous
integration of the countries of the region into NATO. This would
stabilize the whole region and assure the orderly transition toward
democracy and market economy, without the turmoil seen in the former
Yugoslavia.

Romania, a country of 23 milion people, with affinity toward western
culture, at the same time represents the best potential base of
stability in the Balkans.

Romania's ongoing political democratization and reorganization of all
central and local governmental institutions, the inclusion of the
large Hungarian minority in the government, and the expected
subsequent satisfaction of legitimate minority claims are -- and may
become -- positive examples for the countries of the region.

A look at the map of Europe shows Romania to be the gateway to the
East. Only through this gateway will it be possible to access the
heart of Europe, and the key that will allow this gateway to stay open
-- and to defend it effectively at the same time -- is NATO membership
for Romania.

With an important economic potential due to a large and fertile
agricultural area, her metallurgical and defense industries ready to
produce for her allies, possessing the biggest maritime port in
Eastern Europe, with a multiethnic population and large urban
comunities, Romania is just as much an important future partner and
ally of the European Community and of NATO as are Poland, the Czech
Republic, and Hungary.

For all the above considerations, members of the Hungarian Lobby,who
during the last six months learned, along the the members of Diaspora
Romana, to cooperate in promoting the cause of democratic
transformation oin Eastern-Central Europe,support  the inclusion of
Romania, along with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, among the
first group of countries to be integrated into NATO.

   Members of the Hungarian Lobby :
   List with name, title, address

In a message dated 97-06-01 23:48:05 EDT, you write:

>Joel S. Foy
>
>Long Beach, CA
>(562) 434-2429
>
>

Dear Joel,

I am keeping the information you provided private, but by copy of this letter
I am asking the people copied to provide you (directly) with specific
information about sexual harrasment of Hungarian workers at the American
military base at Tasar, Hungary.

Best regards: Bela Liptak

A couple of weeks ago the Labour party was elected in Great Britain and
yesterday the Socialists were elected in France.  Hungary is moving toward
the political right and integration with Europe, while Western Europe
appears to be moving to the political left.

Is there a Hungarian 'spin' on these developments?

Joe Szalai

 on May 20 03:23:21 EDT 1997 in HUNGARY #1003:

> There are bars and discos
>decorated in 50s themes, complete with red flags, Lenin busts, and the
>idiotic little silk flags awarded to the heroes of socialist labor who
>overfulfilled the plan.  I guess it is a form of camp, like going to see
>the Rocky Horror Show on Saturday night...

Really?  I just got back from Hungary and missed all that.  Can you give a
few addresses I could check out next time?

Ferenc

This is just a note to inform you about the lecture to be given by Dr. Thomas
Molnar at Portland State University, Tuesday, June 3rd. Please help us welcome
this distinguished Hungarian to Portland.

E level utjan szeretnenk meghivni onoket Dr. Molnar Tamas eloadasara amelyet a
Portland State Egyetemen kedden, junius harmadikan fog tartani. Kerjuk
segitsenek meleg fogadtatasban reszesiteni kedves magyar vendegunket.




                Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist Era

                            A Lecture by

                          Dr. Thomas Molnar

A scholar, author, and teacher of international repute, Dr. Thomas Molnar was
born in Budapest in 1921. He was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Dachau for
his involvement in the Catholic Youth Movement, later he emigrated to the
United States after his native Hungary fell to the Soviets. He received his
PhD. from Columbia University and has two Masters degrees from the University
of Brussels. He recently retired as Professor of Philosphy from the City
University of New York and has been on the faculties of several colleges and a
visiting professor at Hillsdale College, Yale University and the University of
Budapest.

Dr. Molnar has written twenty-seven books, among which are "Twin Powers:
Politics and the Sacred", "Utopia: The Perennial Heresy", "The Future of
Education", "The Decline of the Intellectual", "Catholic Conception of Politics
and the State", and most recently, "The Birth of Philosophy."

                           Tuesday, June 3, 1997

                                 7:00 PM

                            at the Vanport Room
                            #338 Smith Building
                         Portland State University

                          SW Broadway at Harrison


Sponsered by the Conservative Forum and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
in cooperation with the Mount Hood Society, the Foreign Language Department of
Portland State University, and the Hungarian Community of Friends (MBK)
                         Tim Moon (503) 725-4452
--
Steve Kovacs