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STUDENT'S E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Faculty of Social Science of Charles University
Smetanovo nabr. 6
110 01 Prague 1
C.S.F.R.
e-mail (Bitnet) address: FSVUKA@CSEARN
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C A R O L I N A No 8, Friday, Decemberr 20, 1991.
The E-mail News from Czechoslovakia
This news may be published only with the "CAROLINA" designation.
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THE EVENTS OF LAST WEEK /from December 11 to 18/
8 years' sentence for the promotion of communism
The relation between society and communist party was always tensive
after November 1989 but it wasn't vorbidden despite several demands
after the coup in the Soviet Union. The situation became acute on
December 11 when the Parliament passed an amendment on criminal law
proposed by federal government. Paragraph No 260 says that everybody who
promotes national, racial, class of religional spite- communism and
fascism were put as examples- will be sentenced from 1-8 years. The
memebers of the Parliament representing Communist Party of Bohemia and
Moravia/KSCM/ refused to accept the paragraph saying it contradicts the
Document of Human Rights and Freedom. The chairman of KSCM, Jiri
Svoboda, started even hunger strike in Federal Assembly /he stopped on
17 th of December/. After he put on his jacket a red 6-tiped star the
protest of jewish community in Bohemia was raised. J. Svoboda said he
hadn't intentd to dishonour jewish victims from the second world war/
all the jewish had to wear a star/. He put more comments at the press
conference about accepted law: "The law will not be executed by members
of Parliament but by the prosecutor and it is not excluded that
intimidate of the people could happen.
Opinions of other parliament members are different: "I think this
paragraph has a symbolic and moral importance, because it make the
communism equal fascism first time in our history. Communists belive
they have a beautiful and high goal that allows them using all means as
they used before. Paragraph No 260 said No to this idea" said D. Kroupa,
MP representing Civil Democratic Alliance.
The prime minister of Czechoslovakia Marian Calfa signed an
agreement of association with EC countries in Brusseles on December 16.
Hungarian and Polish prime ministers signed it as well. As associated
members of the EC they have the possibility to establish closer contacts
with EC members in the economic, political and cultural fields. The
final goal of cooperation is obtaining the full memebership. After
signing Czechoslovak prime minister said after that the agrrement would
be an important turning point in European history.
The agreement is considered assymetric and more concessional for our
economy than for the economies of EC members.
The objections of Spain to our steel's export addressed at the last
moment did not change anything and will be noted in the meeting minutes.
President v. Havel came back on December 17 from his thre-day
visit in Egypt . He has discussed with Egyptian president H. Mubarak the
peace development in the Near East, changes in Eastern Europe, the
situation in Yugoslavia and the former USSR and political and economic
cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Egypt. Egypt's importance to
Czechoslovakia as a door to the Arabian world was discussed at the
meeting.
Czechoslovakian prime minister M. Calfa mad an official visit to
Italy on December 17. He talked with Italian president F. Cossiga and
prime minister G. Andreotti. The apprehension of the situation in the
south and east of Czechoslovakia was expressed by our prime minister.
Czechoslovakia would like to cooperate with NATO on defence.
Czechoslovakian minister of defence L. Doborovsky invited the
U.S. minister fof defence Richard Cheney from Decemer 10-11. They signed
an agreement on mutual assistance in topographic map charting, geodesy,
geophsysics and digital territory data compiling. A joint
Czechoslovakian- U.S. group was founded to look after the purchase of
American armaments for our army after the embargo is abolished. This
possibility is still teoretical because Czech army doesn't have now
enough money to buy them.The agreement includes the expansion of the
current programm for Czechoslovakian officers to get professional
training in American army colleges.
Talking to students about voucher privatization
"There is no political party in Czechoslovakia that doesn't intend
to take part in privatization" said Dusan Triska, the head of the
finance ministry's department for voucher privatization. Dusan Triska
was invited to the meeting with law students at Charles University on
December,11.
There will be a lot of ideological fighting in the future about the
limits said Dusan Triska. Such a transformation process is
unprecedented. The voucher privatization is a Czechoslovakian invention
and it was Dusan Triska that proposed the voucher privatization system
as a quick and mass form of privatization. Since here is a mass campaign
for it in our massmedia, almost everybody knows in Czechoslovakia what
the voucher privatization means, but the foreign readers of Carolina
would certainly appreciate an explanation of this term. Voucher
privatization is one of the possibilities for privitizing most of the
state-owned sector . Czechoslovak citizens are offered vouchers with
a symbolic value of 1000 Kcs that allow them to bid in several rounds
for shares of public enterprises. The owners of vouchers become
shareholders and state companies turn into publicly traded. The shares
are valued in points and their value depends on shareholders' demand. D.
Triska criticized the Polish "non-standart" privatization system because
of its academic nature. It is constatnly He also criticized the Polosh
theory of dividing the nation's property among all the people.
"Czechoslovakia doesn't have spies in other countries", said
federal minister of interior Jan Langos at the meeting with the students
at the faculty of social sciences in Prague on December 18.
A way of working of the office for foreign relations and
information isn't different from the such offices' way of working in
western countries. This way of working wasn't specified by ministr more
but it is not a espionage he said.A legalization of soft drugsis in
minister's opinion utopy or demagogy. It will not bring the results
promised by its publicity makers.
He commented a paragraph No 260 of criminal law- news number one
from the last week: "It is a pity I couldn't participate in voting". The
question how he would vote was answered "For". According to minister the
ideology promoting hatred as communism or fascism must be forbidden. The
question of the students concerned the procces against a growinb
criminality, the fight against an organized crime, the changes of top
stuff in Federal and Information service and other hot problems.
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at the same time for unanswered responses or proposals of yours. But we
want you to know that we appreciate the letters very much.
Let us wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 1992
your editors
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