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STUDENT'S E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA
School of Social Science of Charles University
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C A R O L I N A No 15, Friday, February 21, 1992.
LAST WEEK_S EVENTS (February 12 - February 19th )
The First Czechoslovak - Russian Treaty Initialed
Czechoslovak government delegation led by Marian Calfa returned
from a one-day visit to Moscow on Tuesday, February 18th.
The main issues discussed were the debts of the former Soviet
Union towards Czechoslovakia, oil supplies, compensation for damages
caused by the stay of the Soviet army in Czechoslovakia, the mechanism
of business relations. Czechoslovak delegation asked Russia to deliver
the largest possible amount of oil in the first half of this year, and
President Yeltsin promised to meet the needs within months.
Ministers of Foreign Affairs Jiri Dientsbier and Andrej Kozyrev
initialed the treaty about friendly relations and cooperation.
The first treaty in the history of Czechoslovak - Russian
relations is to be signed by the presidents of the two countries,
probably on the occasion of Mr. Havel_s visit to Moscow, planned for
March this year.
Parliament Rejected Amendment to Three Articles of the Constitution.
After Tuesday_s voting in the Parliament the present Constitution
of CSFR remains unchanged. The amendment to three articles defining the
position of Parliament, Government and President, failed in the Slovak
section of the Chamber of Nations.
The amendment to the Privatization Law and amendment to the law
concerning land ownership ( which also settles restitution claims of
citizens of Hungarian nationality ) passed.
Parliament acknowledged the report of the Czechoslovak goverment
about the progress of voucher privatization.
Another issue on the Parliament_s agenda this week is discussion
to the final report of the Committee Investigating the Events of
November 17th.
Property Worth 250 bil. Crowns will be Privatizated in Voucher
Privatization.
A pre-round of the first wave of the voucher privatization started
in Czechoslovakia on Monday, February 17th. The holders of registered
voucher booklets can place their coupons with 437 investment funds.
According to the Federal Minister of Finance Vaclav Klaus,
8,419,000 Czechoslovak citizens have registered by Feb. 15th. The
pre-round will last at least one month and its deadline will be
announced by the Federal Ministry of Finance following agreement with
the national ministries of the National Property and Privatization.
TV Tower Put in Operation.
The visitors to the new TV tower in Mahlerovy sady in Zizkov can
have a new view of Prague from the height of 90 metres.
The tower was opened to the public earlier this week. The 216
meter high tower is the highest building in Prague. The TV signal covers
92% of the capital_s area. An entrance ticket costs 25 crowns and the
restaurant and cafe will be open from 9-23 o_clock.
Two Bronze Medals for Czechoslovakia in Albertville.
The team of ski-jumpers ( Jiri Parma, Frantisek Jez, Tomas Goder
and Jaroslav Sakala ) won the first medal for Czechoslovakia on Friday,
February 14th. On Saturday, the figure skater Petr Barna added a second
one.
CULTURAL SERVICE.
Milos Forman is Sixty.
"Apart from his talent, it was his independence, perseverance,
strong will and hard demands of his own work that brought our film
director his world renown.", said an article in Lidove noviny on
Tuesday, Febr. 18th on the occasion of Milos Forman_s birthday.
The same evening Czech TV showed his film Hair for the first time.
The following Czech films were mentioned in the press:Firemen_s Ball,
Competetion, Loves of a Blond and Black Peter .
Lidove Noviny also mentioned that between the "new Czech wave" and
Forman_s first Oscar, which he got for his film One Flew over the
Cuckoo_s Nest in 1975 (he got his second Oscar in 1984 for Amadeus),
Forman suffered a period of commercional failure with the film
Taking Off. In spite of poverty and uncertainty he refused "average
consumer goods" and waited for a big chance, which was the film version
of Kesey_s novel.
"We have to be grateful to Milos Forman not only for his master
films - not to mention Hair, Ragtime and Valmont - but also for
cosmopolitan experience, which he generously and usefully shares with
us during his "returns of a lost son", continued Lidove noviny.
The last idea of the article is also worth mentioning, "Forman_s
analogy about beings who are so used to the certainty and comfort of a
cage that they are afraid of freedom, which represents the snares of a
jungle, is something we will remember for a long time."
Birthday of Leos Sucharipa.
Leos Sucharipa, an actor, play writer, theatre theoretician and
primarily an exelent translator of Chekhov and other Russian
play writers, celebrated his 60th birthday on Saturday, Febr. 15th.
He studied history and the theory of theatre at DAMU and at GITIS
in Moscow. Then he worked as a theoretician and critic in his post of
editor and editor-in-chief of Divadelni noviny. He was also a deputy of
director-in-chief of the journal Theatre (Divadlo). He was a
dramaturgist as well as actor in the theatres in Usti nad Labem and
Karlovy Vary. After 1989 he became a member of the Prague Realistic
Theatre (today _s Labyrint),
He also stared in films. His biggest and most beautiful film
role was undoubtedly the title role in the film Late Afternoon of the
Fawn directed by Vera Chytilova.
At present he plays in Perfomances of Vojcev and Mein Kampf in the
Labyrinth theatre, and in "A Little Pogrom in the Railway Station
Buffet" and "Temptation" in the Na zabradli theatre.
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