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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 20, Friday, March 27, 1992.
THE EVENTS OF THE LAST WEEK {from March 18-25}
First Run of the Voucher Privatization Started
The first run of the voucher privatization will be started on May 18.
It was decided at the meeting of the Czech, Slovak and federal
governments in Bratislava on March 19. Vaclav Havel was also present at
the meeting. Privatization projects must be approved before April 11.
The list of projects will be published before April 21. There are
8,562,000 registered voucher books. 1.6 million people gave their
voucher books to investment funds. The Ministry of National Property
Management and Privatization expects the value of the privitized
property to be 260 billion crowns. 170 billion crowns worth of the
property is currently held by the Czech government, 65 billion is held
by the Slovak government and the remainder is in the hands of the
federal government.
UN Peace Keepers in Yugoslavia
481 Czechoslovak soldiers and 6 army policemen will arrive in the
Krajina region of Yugoslavia as part of a U.N. Peace Keeping force on
April 12. The unit will travel by railroad through Hungary. The Federal
Assembly agreed to the mission on March 11. The peace keepers will be
equiped with sidearms and 94 army vehicles.
International Honor to Komensky
Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel and Federic Mayor ,the General
Director of UNESCO, lent their support to the international conference
on Komensky which opened March 23 in Prague. The conference is called
"The Heritage of J.A.Komensky and Education of the Human Being for the
21 st Century". The conference is held to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of his birth.
The event is organized by Charles University, the Komensky University
in Bratislava, the Czechoslovak Institution of Science and other
insitutions devoted to scientists and teachers. Twelve hundred
Czechoslovak and foreign Komenius experts and pedagogical workers are
taking part in the conference. The conference aims to present the
important and versatile personality of the man called the teacher of
nations. Pre-school education, didactic teaching aids, children's
rights, new teachnologies in education, and teologistic activities of
Komensky will be discussed. One section of scientists will deal with
the work "The General Remedy of Human Matters" which was issued in
Czech this year.
Many other activities will also celebrate the anniversary. A statue of
Jan Komensky was unveiled in Berlin in the presence of A. Dubcek, the
chairman of the Parliament. A memorial house was reopened in Fulnek,
the town in Norhern Moravia where Komensky worked as a teacher and
priest.
A Serious Accusation in the Slovak Parliament
The Ex-Prime Minister of Slovakia, Vladimir Meciar, was reportedly a
"candidate for cooperation" with the former secret police, according to
a report from an army-security committee. Meciar, the most popular
political leader in Slovakia, is the chairman of the Movement for a
Democratic Slovakia which is slated to win Slovakia's June elections.
Many Czechs regard the party as national-socialist. The report has been
widely discussed in the Czech republic, but it doesn't seem that
Meciar's popularity will decline.
Havel to Visit Russia
President Havel's spokesman has announced that the Treaty of
Czech-Russian Friendship will be signed in Moscow on April 1st. The
president is also expected to meet with Michail Gorbachev.
The Principles of Liberal Society
The club of liberal students REAL invited Jan Sokol, vice-chairman of
the House of People and vice-chairman of Civil Movement, to its regular
meeting on March 18. Jan Sokol spoke about liberalism, his basic
principles and history.
McDonald's Restaurant Opens in Prague
The first McDonald's restaurant in Czechoslovakia was opened in
Vodickova street in Prague on March, 20. An enthusiastic crowd greeted
the opening and an opportunity to bite into Big Macs. The restaurant
has enjoyed immediate success and three policemen could barely control
the rush of people when the doors opened. Animal rights activists
protested the store and distributed leaflets accusing McDonalds of
deforesting the rainforest to provide pasturelands for cattle.
The Privatization in Health Service
The Czech National Council has adopted a law to allow private health
services beginning April 15. The law is intended to foster small
institutions which would provide outpatient services, small surgeries,
lab work, and rehabilitation. According to M. Bojar, the Minister of
Health Services, the law will motivate people working in health care.
CULTURAL SERVICE
Anniversary of Karel Polacek
A symposium on the 100th anniversary of the well known writer and
journalist Karel Polacek took place at a small town in the Orlicke
mountains where he was born. The symposium was sponsored by the
Ministry of Culture and attended by scholars from the Netherlands, U.K.
and Israel, as well as the writer's daughter, Jarmila Jelinowiczova.
Participants visited the site of his birth, a former Jewish ghetto and
a Jewish cemetery. They also held round-table discussions on his life
and work and viewed films of his work. A statue of the writer was also
unveiled.
WEATHER
The weather was the same as in the last week- cloudy and rainy. There
was snow in the mountains. The strong wind blown and the temperature
was between 6-10 degrees of Celsius. Intermittent darkness separated
general periods of sunlight through the week.
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