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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, November 2,1987
Hungarian professor struggled
against odds to preserve ideals
By Amy Young
Reporter
Dr. Andrew Garay has
struggled against overwhelming
odds to preserve his moral and
political standards.
Garay, a professor of bioche
mistry and biophysics at Texas
A&M, was born in Hungary in
1926, a time when the country
was overcome with refugees be
cause of its defeat in World War
I. As a result, Garay’s youth was
dominated by social and political
problems, and by the coming of
another war.
“In some respect,” he says, “I
am a child of the war.
“We realized very early if the
war broke out, we wouldn’t have
any chance. . . . Either Germans
or Russians would eat us up — we
saw that. It was no surprise.”
Despite these factors, Garay
says he had a happy childhood.
He spent time with his friends
camping, hiking and playing soc
cer.
“I felt the war was something
beyond the circle in which I was
living,” he says. “But, little by
little, the war penetrated into my
consciousness, and when I was
about 16, I had already realized
something terrible was going on.
“I realized that life and death,
which is probably for the average
American a removed thing, is an
everyday phenomenon.”
Garay attended the University
of Budapest, which employed
good professors but had limited
funds and facilities compared to
those in the United States. Little
was allocated toward research de
velopment, he says, and as a re
sult, professors were forced to
work on projects requiring litde
money, thus becoming what he
describes as “very theoretically
oriented, unlike A&M, which is
very practically oriented.”
Garay says he was forbidden to
teach in Hungary because he dis
agreed with several political is
sues, and the government didn’t
want children to be exposed to his
ideas.
After years of research, Garay
rose to higher positions and was
eventually named head of his de-
artment, a position that allowed
im to travel (without his wife) to
such places as Paris, Vancouver,
Tokyo, Cairo, London and Mos-
v.
‘Finally,” says Garay, “I had
moral difficulties as a person who
had some influence on the poli
tics of the country. I had an in-
creasingly difficult time doing
what they asked me to do. Conse
quently, I decided I had three op
tions: either to be a party mem
ber, to go to prison or to try to
escape.”
Garay says about 90 percent of
those capable of escaping think
about it.
In 1975, Garay opted to at
tempt escape with his wife and
two small children by illegally
crossing the border.
“We went to Yugoslavia in a
half-legal way,” he says. “Not with
passports, since neither my wife
nor my children ever got pass
ports, but we wanted to visit
someone very near to the border
of Yugoslavia. We went to the
Italian border and crossed it.
This was risking our lives. It
really was much more difficult
than I had expected.
“Fortunately, and simply by co
incidence, a person from Dallas
was visiting there at the Yugosla
vian seashore. He told me, ‘You
cannot do that.’ It was the first
time I had met him.”
After Garay convinced the
man he was determined to es
cape, the Texan offered to help
get Garay and his family safely
across the border.
“Without his help,” Garay says,
“I probably would nave been shot
or forced to go back to Hungary
by my wife’s or my own fear of
being shot. However, with his
help, we were able to cross the
border in the middle of the night,
although he was wounded — not
with guns, but while fighting with
the border £uard. It was a des
perate situation.”
After surviving the trauma of
crossing the border, Garay and
his family were faced with adjust
ing to their new environment — a
refugee camp in Italy.
“It was not a pleasure to be
there with two small children for
two main reasons,” he says. “First
of all, there were lots of provoca
tions in the refugee camp. For in
stance, we had a Russian refugee
who was killed by another Rus
sian refugee who cut his throat . .
. No one knew the second refugee
was an agent.
“Another reason was the camp
had many gangsters who used the
camp for recruiting young refu
gees for robberies, smuggling
and things of that nature. I came
to know, in person, some of the
well-known European gangsters.
They had, of course, false names
such as ‘Steam Engine.’
“They tried to convince the
refugees that they were hopeless
Dr. Andrew Garay
and would never be accepted in
the Western world. ‘You will rot
here,’ they would tell them.
Really, there were at least 20 ref
ugees who were there 10-15 years
because no one wanted them.
Many of them were mentally sick.
If not mentally sick, most of them
were potentially dangerous.”
Garay says the entire process
was organized and implemented
as soon as he crossed the border.
He and his family were systemati
cally investigated and placed in a
refugee camp. In Europe, he
says, things are more strictly or
ganized.
“We were a little bit afraid that
we would be carried back to Hun
gary by agents,” he says, “so we al
ways stuck together as a family.
Half a year later, we got political
asylum from an international
body in Switzerland. We then got
the entry permit from the United
States.
“You wouldn’t believe what a
relief it was, finally, on Nov. 11,
1975, to land at the New York air
port. At last we were able to get
our first showers. The refugee
camp didn’t have good facilities,
so we had gone almost every day
to the seashore to take a bath
there.”
In spite of all this, Garay says
he doesn’t feel he was mentally
damaged by the tragedies he sur
vived.
“You hear lots of things about
Vietnam veterans and how they
need psychological care or that
they are severely mentally distur
bed,” he says. “I agree with that,
Photo by Sam Mm
but then 80 percent of the world
is in the same situation. Every na
tion, except maybe England and
f ossibly Switzerland, has been
umiliated several times in theii
history. Americans, in and of
themselves, have never suffered
this kind of humiliation, whereas
the Vietnam veterans did. I, how
ever, do not feel affected in this
way.”
Garay says America has lived
up to his expectations — and then
some.
^ ^ • • /• . I
“There are billions of people
who have no way out," he says
“They are boxed in. I am happy I
was able to come to the United
States. I love being here, and I'm
glad my family is here."
When Garay decided to escape,
it was with the knowledge he
would leave the rest of his family,
his heritage and his past behind
to begin anew in a strange world
where he knew almost no one.
“I miss these things, of course,'
he says, “but they can’t be
changed. We can never return to
Hungary. My wife is sentenced to
two and a half years in jail, andl
am sentenced to three years.
“I am happy. I am close to the
end of my life and I feel I have
had a beautiful, full life. I have
seen the happiness and the opti
mism of the numan being under
very serious and bad conditions.
“I am grateful for what hap
pened to me. I have seen the
world, and now 1 have the oppor
tunity to work, especially in
America, and to teach.”
Soviet supplier holds contract with Kelly AFB
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A
Norwegian company accused of sell
ing the Soviets equipment to make
submarines run quieter has multi-
million-dollar contracts with Kelly
Air Force Base, the San Antonio
Light reported Sunday.
Kelly officials told the newspaper
they had contracts worth $ 13.2 mil
lion with a division of Kongsberg
Vapenfabrikk to manufacture tur
bine parts for the sophisticated FI00
engine, used in the F-15 and F-16
fighter jets.
Kongsberg was accused by the De
fense Department of a gross security
breach after it was disclosed this
summer that Kongsberg and To
shiba shipped $17 million worth of
computer-controlled milling equip
ment to the Baltic Shipyard.
The equipment will allow the Sovi
ets to make quieter submarine pro
pellers so they can elude detection
by U.S. forces, officials say.
Kelly officials defended their con
tracts, which were awarded in 1981,
saying that the division they dealt
with, Norsk Jet Air Motors, was not
involved in the submarine division,
The Defense Department hi 1
banned any future contracts wilt
Kongsberg or any of its subsidiaries
An official, who asked not to bi
identified, said the relationship be
tween Norsk and Kongsberg stiF
being explored. However, the cur
rent contracts will not be canceled
the official said.
The Association of
Former
Students
Fall Senior
Induction Banquet
Monday St Tuesday, JJtovember 9 Sl lO, 1987
6:30 p.m.
MSC room 224
All December graduates are invited to attend. Complimentary tickets
will be available as long as they last, November 2-4 in the lobby of the
Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center
This is your invitation to attend the formal induction of Class of
’87 graduates.
TICKETS GIVEN ON FIRST COME—FIRST SERVED BASIS
Student LD. Required to Pick-up Ticket