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STUDENTS' E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECH REPUBLIC
School of Social Sciences of Charles University
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Czech Republic
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C A R O L I N A No 65, Monday, March 8, 1993.
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Editors
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FROM LAST WEEK'S EVENTS (February 26-March 2)
Boundary with Slovakia is guarded
Czech minister of the Interior, Jan Ruml said at his
Friday's meeting with Slovakian minister of the Interior, Jozef
Tuchyna that the Czech Republic would prefer it if its boundary
with Slovakia was guarded. This would require an amendment to the
act of the abolishment of visa-duty, and a treaty of establishing
new border crosings, and small borderland contacts would have to
be signed. According to J. Tuchyna, Slovakia is not interested in
creating a fixed boundary, that would be more expensive than just
returning refugees back to their starting countries.
Inauguration of Slovakian prezident
Prezident of the Slovak Republic, Michal Kovac entered his
office on Tuesday morning. Czech prezident Vaclav Havel was
present at this festive ceremony as one of those invited whereas
Czech premier Vaclav Klaus excused for being too busy.
Having taken the prezidential vow in the concert hall of the
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra followed by the Slovak anthem, the
prezident gave his inaugurational speech. In the end of the
ceremony Michal Kovac participated at a thanksgiving service Te
Deum in St. Martin's cathedral in Bratislava.
Radical in the head of social democracy
Forty-eight years old representative of the so-called
radical stream, Milos Zeman was elected the chairman of Czech
Social Democratic Party on Sunday's 26th party's congress. In the
last round the new chairman was supported by the votes of Young
Social Democrats which helped him to go succesfully through
the election. The delegates of the congress changed the name of
Czechoslovak Social Democracy to Czech Social Democratical Party.
To the posts of the vice-chairmen were elected Pavel Novak who
refused to cooperate with Zeman, Jaromir Kuca, Petr Moravek,
Vaclav Grulich and Petra Buzkova. The Chairman of Honour was
elected Jiri Horak.
Having been elected, the new chairman expressed his
persuasion that the social democracy will get governmental posts
not only out of mercy of the current governmental coalition, but
thanks to the will of its electorate. He also said that he will
strive for creating a so-called realistic bloc and he did not
expell a possibility of the rise of a shadow cabinet of the
oposition.
Personal exchange of money has finished
The exchange of unstamped money in detached branches of the
Czech National Bank (CNB) and Commercial Bank ended on Sunday,
February 28. Now unstamped paper bills can be sent only to
detached branches of CNB exclusively via post as a precious
registered mail. This mail accompanied with an application for
exchange must be addressed to a detached branch of CNB in the
place of one's home permanent address.
The compensation for unstamped paper notes sent for exchange
will be provided by CNB after a check upon the applications by
August 9, 1993.
A compelling reason necessary for the settlement of the
application can be considered a demonstrable long-time stay
abroad or in institutions as in the article 2, paragraph 6 of the
act of currency separation.
Slovakian currency improves
In recent days the turist rate of the Slovak crown grew
slightly as against the Czech crown. Representatives of Czech
Savings Bank, Czechoslovak Commercial Bank and Agrobank explained
this by the development of demand and supply. Agrobank is running
out of Slovak crowns. The situation is similar in other monetary
institutions too. Contrarywise in Slovakia, Czechoslovak
Commerical Bank has more supplies of Czech money than formerly.
This led to a rate increase of the Slovak crown:
Turist rate of the Slovak crown (as of March 1 - Kc for Sk)
buy sell
Czechoslovak Commercial Bank 94.00 98.00
Czech Savings Bank 91.50 96.50
Agrobanka 86.00 91.00
Bank of Investment 81.00 86.00
Commercial Bank 80.85 84.15
Temelin will not be converted
Vice-chairman of Deputy Chamber, Pavel Tollner denied on
Monday the information that during his visit to Austria he had
talked about the necessity of converting the half-completed
Temelin nuclear power station into a steam-gas circle. He said
that this in only one of the considered variations.
The final decision of the future of Temelin is supposed to
be reached at the next governmental session, on March 10 when
Minister of Industry, Vladimir Dlouhy will present the cabinet
with a pertinent material.
Unusual course of flu epidemy
While in recent years the flu epidemy lasted no more than
two weeks, this year it has been dragging on since the end of
January. As of the last week, the number of the sick in Prague
rose by thirty per cent (every 17th child is sick). In Moravia
even visits in some hospitals were restricted. The relatively
best situation is in the mid-Bohemian region where it was not
necessary to adopt any measures against the flu epidemy. It is
probable that the sinister smog situation in recent days
contributed to the infection being spread.
Unemployment will rise
In January there were 3.01 per cent of the jobless in the
Czech Republic. According to the Ministry of Work and Social
Affaires the rate of unemployment will climb up to eight per cent
at the end of the year.
Confidence in Government increases
64 per cent of the inhabitants of the Czech Republic
expressed their confidence in the government in February's survey
of public opinion. As against the last year this means an
increase by 12 per cent. On the contrary, the Czech Parliament is
entrusted only by 46 per cent of the inhabitants which is by one
per cent less than in December.
Money to Slovakia only via Post Bank
As of mid-March the contacts of payments with the Slovak
Republic will be renewed. Everyone who wants to send money to
Slovakia will have to open an account with the Czech Post Bank.
Public meals went up in price the most
Consumers'prices in the Czech Republic increased in January
by 8.5 per cent as against last year's December. Prices for
public meals rose by 15.4 and services 12.7 per cent.
Cubist Kubista
Paintings, pastels, grafic art and drawings of Czech painter
Bohumil Kubista (1884-1918) are exhibited in the National Gallery
in Valdstejn Palace in Prague till May 30. The last complete
exhibition of this classic of the Czech modern painting took
place 33 years ago.
Charles Univerzity's Doctorates of Honour
Academician prof.Dr.Ing. Otto Wichterle, the inventor of
nylon and contact lenses, and a holder of Nobel Prize, prof.Dr.
Dudley Herschbach were on March 2, in the venerable great hall of
Karolinum, awarded the Doctorate of Honour of Siences, honoris
causa.
SPORT
Hockey League
Pardubice advanced from play-off having beaten Ceske
Budejovice three times. Kosice had done with Olomouc likelywise.
The duel of South-Moravian teams was more dramatic - Zlin beat
Jihlava as late as in the fifth round. Kladno has played only
three regular matches with Poprad with results: 6:2,4:0 and 3:4.
The fourth match played in Poprad was due to a mutual fight
contumned for Poprad's benefit (5:0). The fifth match was
contumned the other way round because the players from under
the Tatras did not turn up in Kladno. Thus in the second round of
play-off Kladno will encounter Vitkovice, Kosice will play with
Trencin, Zlin with Sparta Praha, and Pardubice with Litvinov.
Football League
Unfavourable weather influenced the second spring's round of
the football league. Two matches were defered due to an unfitting
field. The other matches were played out with following results:
Sparta Praha - Hradec Kralove 2:1, Inter Bratislava - Olomouc
4:1, Presov - Brno 3:0, Vitkovice - Ceske Budejovice 1:0,
Dunajska Streda - Ostrava 0:0, Dukla Praha - Bohemians 1:1. The
league is still led by Sparta Praha followed by Dunajska Streda,
the charter is closed by Bohemians Praha and Trnava.
WEATHER
Dozens of centimeters of snow gathered last week in the
whole republic. In Prague a 25 centimeters high layer caused a
calamity. The streets were impassable, transport as well as
supply got stuck and skiers even managed to slide down the
Wenceslas square. At the beginning of the new week the daily
temperature climbed up to 4 or 8 degrees, during the night the
thermometer keeps slightly below zero.
EXCHANGE RATE OF THE CZECH CROWN
buy sell
USA 1USD 28.42 29.82
BRD 1DEM 17.15 18.07
BG 1GBP 40.10 43.24
CAN 1CAD 22.40 23.96
FRA 1FRF 5.03 5.35
AUT 1ATS 2.44 2.56
The rates as of March 2, 1993.
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