These people are ethnic Hungarians and. while their disagreement about their treatment by the Rumanian State Central Federation of Athletics might have been the immediate cause of their defection. there is little doubt that the continuing violation of the human and ethnic rights of the 21/2 million Hungarians. mostly in Transylvania. was the underlying concern that led to their final action after much soulsearching. We hope that the Rumanian Government will be faster than usual in releasing the 7yearold daughter of the Karolys and the wife and infant child of Mr. Pozsar and I am today urging the Rumanian Ambassador to expedite matters under the family reunification clauses of the 1975 Helsinki Declaration of the Conference on Cooperation and Security in Europe. We understand that. as long as their children are in Rumania. the defectors must refrain from exposing the human rights and ethnic policy grievances which they and their fellow Hungarians suffer in the Communist dictatorship of Mr. Nicolae Ceaucescu.
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