Aktivizácia maďarských disidentov v záujme maďarskej menšiny na Slovensku ako aj pohyb medzi maďarskými intelektuálmi na Slovensku sa v rokoch 1983 a 84 sa odzrkadlili aj na stránkach denníka The New York Times. ÚsilieVýboru pre ochranu práv maďarskej národnosti v ČSSR bolo zamerané predovšetkým na zachovanie menšinových škôl na južnom Slovensku.

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November 20, 1983

By JOHN KIFNER

BUDAPEST— A growing sense of nationalism appears to have bolstered Hungary's small group of dissidents, but also to have led to a Government crackdown.

A Western diplomat said the Hungarian Government had tolerated the dissidents ''because they were good window dressing for the West.'' Another reason, he said, was that their writings were ''so obscure and turgid they didn't have much appeal.''

But in the spring, dissidents here say, policemen began harassing them on the street and raiding and searching their apartments.

The dissident movement is rather miniscule in Hungary, a country that has steered its economy toward relative plenty and its society toward some measure of freedom, backed by a sober acceptance of Soviet military power.

But change in their status has come, the diplomat said, now that the dissidents are beginning to ''talk about the national issue'' - the fate of the Hungarian ethnic minorities in parts of Rumania and Czechoslovakia, territories Hungary lost after World War II. The dissidents say the minorities are ill-treated and discriminated against, their schools and churches closed and their property seized.

The question of the traditionally Hungarian area of Transylvania, which is now a part of Rumania, is a particularly sensitive one for the Hungarian Government, and has caused strains between the two countries.

About 60 Activists

Janos Kis, a philosopher who is one of the most prominent of the dissidents, said in an interview that there are about 50 to 60 activists, generally clustered around the quarterly underground publication Beszelo. He said there were perhaps 200 supporters and a readership of ''several thousand'' who share the group's ideas.

But Hungary also harbors a large group of people who style themselves as ''free intellectuals'' in universities and official institutes, many of them even advising the Government on economic policy and other matters. Up to now they have enjoyed some independence in their writing and discussion.

Dissident sources date the sterner Government attitude to an article published in December in Nepszabadsag, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, by its assistant editor, Peter Renyi, who is generally considered a spokesman for hard-line elements.

''The imperialist centers long ago made it their strategy to support by various means the erosive, subversive elements within socialism, the oppositionist groups and organizations, the trends propagating the bourgeois political system and bourgeois nationalism,'' Mr. Renyi warned dissidents.

''Consider what way you have chosen, what course will follow once you have crossed the Rubicon that separates a critical ideological attitude from hostile political activity.'' The 'Rajk Boutique'

Until that point, underground publications had reportedly been distributed without restriction and sold, along with smuggled Western publications, in the apartment of an architect, Laszlo Rajk. But the dissidents said the police closed what had become known as the Rajk Boutique.

More recently, Ferenc Kulin, editor of a well-established literary magazine, Mozgo Vilag, was abruptly dismissed. The magazine, which had been concentrating on such subjects as the Stalinist years and Hungary's role on the side of the Axis in World War II, was condemned last year by the Communist Party Central Committee for ''undesirable writings.''

One of Hungary's most eminent poets, Sandor Csoori, has been effectively banned from publishing after writing an attack in the spring on what he called the ''raging perversity'' of the treatment of the Hungarian minorities.

Mr. Csoori's criticism came in an introduction to a political autobiography, ''The Choke Collar,'' which was published in New York and written by Miklos Duray, an ethnic Hungarian who was brought up in Czechoslovakia.