Dear Colleagues,
If every one of you did, what Kriszi has done in the attached letter to her
friends, you would make a difference. Such a chain letter, if started only by
a thousand people, but resent by each recipient to their friends, could wake
public opinion. We have only 6 weeks, please help.
Best regards: Bela Liptak
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Date: 96-12-30 21:55:05 EST
Dear Friends,
For the past few months I've been involved in a volunteer project to
help restore the Danube Wetlands. I've dedicated a section of my Web
site to this issue which is near and dear to my heart. Please take
a moment to read the attached summary and visit the site.
www.goodpoint.com/duna.htm
Summary: In the mid 80's Slovakia (the country formerly known as
half of Czechoslovakia) began construction on a series of dams aimed
at generating hydroelectricity. The plan was originally based
on a 1977 agreement with Hungary, requiring the diversion of the
Danube, the border river shared by the two countries. Considerable
pressure from the former Soviet Union influenced the agreement.
When it became apparent that the plan would result in catastrophic
environmental damage Hungary backed out of the agreement.
Slovakia went ahead and illegally diverted the river, depriving
Hungary of her natural resource. The result is devastating
environmental and economic damage to Hungary, all for a mere 2-3% of
Slovakia's electricity needs. In February the International Court
of Justice will begin hearings on this case, the first environmental
issue ever brought before the Court. The ruling could have long
term effects and set environmental precedents around the globe.
Please help spread the word to friends and acqaintances who may
want to know about this important issue.
Thanks for your attention.
Kriszti
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Dear Colleagures,
In 1996, we have made a difference in many areas (democracy movement in
Serbia, St. Stephen's Crown, Romanian Lobby, Pal Cseresznyes) but the issue
on which we truely scored, was the stopping of the secret, out-of-court deal
on the Danube.
In six weeks, the lawsuit at the International Court of Justice starts in the
Hague. Please, let us all dedicate these six weeks to waking up world public
opinion and bringing it to bear on the outcome of the first environmental
lawsuit in human history. It can be done and we can do it! This is how:
Thanks to Kriszti Mendonca (2409 Alvin St., Mt. View, CA 94043, tel:
415-691-9821, e-mail:  ) now we have a multimedia
web-site at: http://www.goodpoint.com/duna.htm
Please do the following:
1) Please visit the site, see the pictures, learn the issues involved.
2) Please do whatever you can to get this site known and recognized by the
automatic web-servers. Anybody who knows how to do that, please contact
Kriszti.
3) Please write a form-letter to ALL your friends asking them to:
a) Also visit the site
b) Ask for help from politicians and the media
c) RESEND your letter to THEIR friends, making it a true "chain
letter," which is destined to spread over the whole Internet.
At the end of this 15th revision of our HL status report, I also included
e-mail addresses you can use in this efferort. Remember, that the only things
we lose are the ones which we ourselves give up on, and we do not give up on
the Danube.
Have a very happy New Year celebration and right after that, please start
your chain letter! Best regards: Bela Liptak
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LIST OF HL-ACTIONS IN PROGRESS
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION (Articles, Lists)
Csángó Problem (13 and 43)
Cseresznyes - Facts (25 and 40))
Danube and the Compromise Plan (50)
E-Mail Lists of Media and Politicians (Attached)
Gyulafehervar Declaration (44)
Hungarian Economy (34)
Hungarian History (1 & 24)
Hungarian-Romanian Treaty's Text in both Hungarian and English (7 & 22)
Linguists Against the Slovak Language Law (26)
Our Blind Spot for Vojvodina (2)
Pannonhalma (2)
Proclamation of the Hungarians in Slovakia (2)
Road to Peace: Collective Human Rights (2)
Slovak Constitution (4)
Slovakia's Hungarian Minority (41)
South Tirol Precedent for Autonomy (45)
State Dept.: Romanian Human Rights Practice (32)
Subcarpathia (4)
Transylvania and the Romanian Constitution (3)
Trianon - Including Literature List (2,43 and 51)
Vojvodina (1 and 43)
Vojvodina, history of genocide (33)
Voting rights of dual citizens (22)
1956 Memoirs (2)
LETTER, ARTICLE AND FAX CAMPAIGNS (Formletters)
Support for Pal Cseresznyes (25)
Cry Hungary - Demand to show the BBC film in Hungary (2)
Csangos - 10 ways to help (2)
- Allow them to hear the Holy Mass in their native language (2)
- Letters to Vatican Radio, the Vatican paper L'Observatore and
to Archbishop of Gyor (25 and19)
Danube - Chain letter to spread news of "SAVE THE BLUE DANUBE" web site (50)
- International Court of Justice (2)
- Request to Gyula Horn to make Hungarian position public (2)
- Support for Environmental NGO Memorial (2)
- Support Compromise Plan (2)
- For Danube related information refer to homepages (49):
Our own: http://www.goodpoint.com/duna.htm
Supporters: http.//origo.hnm.hu/danube_doc/
http:/gurukul.ucc.american.edu/TED/HUNGARY.HTM
Debt Repayment by Hungarian Stocks, Recommendation to Finance Minister (2)
Demand Slovak Apology for Expulsion of Hungarians after WW2 (2)
Habitat Housing Project of President Carter, Assistance (42)
Honor Gabor Bognar (2) -
Hungarian Secret Police - Demand opening the III/II Files (2,11,31)
- Oppose 80 year secrecy of "oilgate"
data (2)
Protest Bias of Reuters Reporters Roxana and Adrian Dascalu (46)
Protesting Gerrymandering in Slovakia (2)
Protesting Slovak Destruction of Hungarian Monuments (19)
Protesting Slovak Language Police ( 9)
Protesting Slovak Law Forbidding the Singing of National Anthems (19)
Protesting Romanian Educational Policy in Transylvania (2)
Rehabilitate Ilonka Toth, Request to Justice Minister (2)
Roma Problem: Asking for Protection of Romas (2)
Used clothing for the Transylvanian Roma (30)
Support: Democracy movement in Serbia (52)
Support for Somorja's Mayor on Language Law's Constitutionality (2)
Support for Unitarian Statement on Human Rights in Romania (5)
OTHER PROJECTS
AP/Reuters/UPI, Obtain names and e-mail/fax of key reporters (19)
Coordinate our Efforts with:
Hungarian Minister for the Minorities (7)
Romanian Lobby (20)
Pal Cseresznyes: Collection for the Cseresznyes Fund (48)
Donations: to help csangos (52)
to Publish History of Bolyai Farkas Liceum (16 & 20)
for Building School Dormitory in Szabadka (27)
for Hungarian Press in Slovakia (6)
Order Dr. I. Benko's book on Trianon (35)
Support printing of postcards and stamps for Danube lawsuit (38)
NUMBER CODES:
1) 
2) HL archives at http://mineral.umd.edu/hl/archive/ or 
3) 
4) 
5) 
6) László Böjtös, 11312 Fitzwater Dr. Brecksville, OH 44141
7) 
8) 
9) Eugene Megyesy Esq., fax: 303-832-3804
10) 
11) 
12) 
13) kurrah.cab.jgytf.u-szeged.hu OR 
(14) 
(15) 
(16) Cultural Foundation for Transylvania, POB 1487, Washington DC 20013-1487
(17) Dr. J.L. Bollyky (fax: 203-967-4845)
(18) 
(19) 
(20) 
(21) 
(22) 
(23) 
(24) http://www.mediarange.com/media/huncor/huncor.htm
(25) 
(26) 
(27) 
(28) HHRF fax: 212-996-6268, Hungarian Coalition fax: 202-775-5175
(29) 
(30) International Roma Federation, Sandor Balogh, VP. 308 E. 80th St. NYC
10021, Fax: 212-472-7782.
(31) 
(32) 
(33) 
(34) 
(35) Dr. I. Benko, 18222 Robin Ave, Somona, CA 95476
(36) 
(37) 
(38) Laszlo Kertesz, Veszprem, Varga u. 8/8, Hungary
(39) 
(40) 
(41) 
(42) 
(43) 
(44) 
(45) 
(46) 
(47) Zonda Attila, fax: 011-40-65-168-511
(48) The Calvin Hungarian Presbyterian Church
11701-86 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 3J7, CANADA
(49) 
(50) http://www.goodpoint.com/duna.htm
(51) http://www.msstate.edu/archives/history/hungary.html
(52) (Istok Gyorgy, Com: Cleja code: 5529, Jud: Bacau,
Romania)
(53) http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~protest96/
http://mineral.umd.edu/protest96/
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PS: Please collect signatures to this form letter and mail it to the
President:
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Reply to:______________________________________________________
Date:_________________________________________________________
President Bill Clinton
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, D.C.
(e-mail:  )
RE: Support Collective Human Rights in Central Europe
Dear Mr. President,
Every culture is sacred, the destruction of a single one, mutilates the
heritage of the entire human race. International standards are needed to
protect all of them. We, Americans must accept the historical responsibility
to lead in the development of such international standards, which will
protect the collective human rights of all indigenous minority groups.
We must lead, as we pass on the bridge to the 21st Century, just as we did a
few decades ago, when we decided to protect the individual human
rights of all. Collective rights flow from those of the individual, because
such
basic rights as the use of one's language can only be practiced in groups.
There is no other choice. There are no melting-pots in the Screbenicas of the
World. The alternative to cultural autonomy are mass graves and cultural
genocides.
Mr. President: In this century, the United States was forced three times, to
intervene in Europe. The only way to permanently eliminate the need for
sending our troops on similar missions in the future, is to eliminate the
cause of these conflicts. This should be done by uniformly satisfying the
aspitations of all indigenous minority groups. If, as the president of
the United States, you would make the defense of collective human rights and
cultural autonomy, a cornerstone of your foreign policy, you would
permanently eliminate the need for our G.I.s to get entangled in future
European conflicts.
As a member of the 1.58 million community of Hungarian-Americans, I ask you
to make the cultural autonomy of all indigenous national minorities of
Central Europe, an integral part of your foreign policy.
Respectfully yours,
Your name, address and title. If this letter is signed by many, please use
the attached form to list the names and addresses.
cc: Vice President Al Gore
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NAME ADDRESS
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FEEL FREE TO USE THESE ADDRESSES
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E-MAIL ADDRESS LIST FOR HUNGARIAN LOBBYING:
INDEX:
AMERICAN: Daily Newspapers
Helsinki Commission
Interested in 1956
Politicians
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
DANUBE: Environmentalists, Hungarian
Environmental NGOs
Environmentalist Publications
EUROPEAN: Political Leaders
Newspapers
Radios
HUNGARIAN: FIDESZ
Fg. Kisgazda
Government
Internet Lists
KDMP
MDF
MDNP
MSZP
MTI
Newspapers
Parliament
Radio
SZDSZ
Internet Groups
Leaders of Government
Leaders of Parliament
MTI
Newspapers
ROMANIAN: Csango specialists
Government and President
Hungarians
Lobby
Media
Organizations
SERBIAN: Protest96
SLOVAK: Hungarians
A M E R I C A N ADDRESSES (DAILY NEWSPAPERS):
ajopinion
, 
dpnews
alphafran
 , 
njcenter
, 
, 
A M E R I C A N (HELSINKI COMMISSION):
A M E R I C A N (Interested in 1956)
ajanos
, 
z28mike
SMMor
, 
, 
A M E R I C A N (Political Leaders)
AMERICAN (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
, 
D A N U B E (Hungarian Environmentalists)
D A N U B E (Environmental NGOs)
, 
, 
DANUBE (Environmental Publications)
, 
E U R O P E A N (Human rights and Helsinki Leaders)
, 
E U R O P E A N (Newspapers)
, 
, 
, 
E U R O P E A N (Radios)
 , 
knls
, 
H U N G A R I A N (FIDESZ)
 , 
H U N G A R I A N (Fg. Kisgazda)
H U N G A R I A N (Government)
H U N G A R I A N (Internet Lists)
,  ,
 ,
 ,
 ,
 ,
 , 
H U N G A R I A N (KDNP)
 , 
H U N G A R Y (MDF)
, 
H U N G A R I A N (MDNP)
 ,
H U N G A R I A N (MSZP)
 ,
HUNGARIAN (MTI)
H U N G A R I A N (Newspapers, TV)
H U N G A R I A N (New Yoek Consul)
H U N G A R I A N (Parliament)
H U N G A R I A N (Radio)
H U N G A R I A N (SZDSZ)
R O M A N I A N (Csango specialists)
 , 
R O M A N I A N (Hungarians)
R O M A N I A N (Government and President)
R O M A N I A N (Lobby)
R O M A N I A N (Media)
R O M A N I A N (Organizations)
S E R B I A N (Democrats)
SLOVAKIAN (Hungarians)
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