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STUDENTS' E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECH REPUBLIC
School of Social Sciences of Charles University
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C A R O L I N A No 73, Friday, April 30, 1993.
FROM LAST WEEK EVENTS (April 21-28)
Superzero is not the issue of the day
"The super-zero variant is really a marginal, final and extreme
solution for us, and it is not the issue of the day", said Premier
Vaclav Klaus after negotiations with I. Mjartan, Slovak Ambassador in
the Czech Republic. The negotiation was initiated by the Slovak side.
They demaned an explanation of the term "super-zero". As early as last
week, the Slovak premier indicated that Slovakia would accept this
variant in case it would correspond with the "Slovak zero variant." This
variant assumes mutual recognition of property claims between both
republics. Since the Slovak claims include compensation of
40.000.000.000 Kc for the former federal flag, the "Slovak zero" is
unacceptable to the Czech representatives.
According to premier Klaus, most of the agreements are ready to be
signed. Some unresolved issues are caused rather by clerks' laggardness
than by political ignorance. He also said that the super-zero variant
was only a feeler set off just to find out a contingent passage-way of
this solution.
Vaclav Havel in the USA and Germany
One of the possibilities to achieve peace in Bosnia and Hercegovina
is air attack. Czech president Vaclav Havel said this at his
several-day visit to the USA. He also said that if the international
community accepts a remarkably forcible decision when solving this
problem, stronger than until now, the Czech Republic will support it.
The situation in Bosnia was one of the issues Bill Clintion mentioned
during his one-hour talk with V. Havel. The Czech side expressed its
disappointment above the fact that the office of the American
commissioner for trade negotiations ranked the former Czechoslovakia to
the list of 44 countries which in 1992 created obstacles to the trade
with the USA. Czech president also participated at a celebral opening of
Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
On Saturday president V. Havel started his three-day visit to
Germany. His introductory meeting with Richad von Weizsacker concerned
mainly the development of Czech-German relations and the possibilities
of the integration of the Czech Republic into the European Community. On
Saturday V. Havel received, in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, Award of
Theodor Heusse which is attributed since 1965. This award named after
the first president of Germany was given to V. Havel for his exemplary
fight for freedom and human rights during a public opression. After
a meeting with enterpreneurs from Hamburk, president Havel went to Bonn
where he finished his official visit with talks to premier Helmut Kohl,
minister of foreign affaires Klaus Kinkel, and German president Richard
von Weizsacker.
More than 60 percent of the public for reforms
Nine percent of the inhabitants to the Czech Republic regard the
basic principles of the economy transformation as completely right, 52%
more or less right, 18% more or less wrong, 4% of the respondents deny
it completely, and 17% do not know. These are the results of a fresh
published public poll carried out by the Institute for Public Poll in
mid March.
The 17% are mostly young people and people above 60 years of age.
Only a half of oldish inhabitants regards the transformation steps as
right. The opinion that the speed of the reform is right is shared by
26% of the respondents, 36% say it is slow, 20% think it is too fast.
The changes carried out so far are succesfull of rather succesfull for
25% of the participants to the survey.
Ecology protests against the nuclear power plant
The main gate of the Temelin nuclear power plant was on Monday
blocked by a live chain of activitists of several ecology associations.
This activity is according to them the first of many to come. They want
to change the government decision on the final construction of the power
plant. The demonstrators refused to show their identity cards and clear
out the space, and they were escorted by the police from the region
administration to a police station in Brezi. According to the latest
news all of them have already been set free.
At the occasion of the International Earth Day, ecology activists
hold on Thursday in Prague several protest activities, for example at
the Old Town Square they built a sarcophagus for the Temelin nuclear
power plant, in Havlicek orchards they prepared a symbolic "Wailing
Wall" for children who could draw on it all their troubles.
Czech acid rains
Mean acidity of rains in Czech is approximately ten times higher
than their usual acidity. These are the results of international project
"Blue from the sky - are you interested in what you breath?" whose
coordinator is Norish Association for Nature Protection.
Also in the remaining twelve states who took part in the research,
the acidity exceeded the norm.
EXCHANGE RATE OF THE CZECH CROWN
buy sell
USA 1USD 27.52 28.92
BRD 1DEM 17.53 18.45
GB 1GBP 43.55 46.39
CAN 1CAD 21.54 23.32
FRA 1FRF 5.13 5.53
AUT 1ATS 2.49 2.61
TURIST RATE OF THE SLOVAK CROWN (100 Sk)
buy sell
Agrobanka 90.00 95.00
Ceska sporitelna 87.00 93.00
Investicni banka 87.00 92.00
Komercni banka 83.00 87.00
The rates are valid as of April 27, 1993
SPORT
Basketball
The first winner of the Czech basketball man league became
University Sport Club Praha. In the final they beat Sparta Praha in
three matches. The third finished Bioveta Ivanovice.
Football
Five put off league matches were played this week. Sparta Praha
(36pts) wan 4:2 on the turf of Ceske Budejovice and thus ensured itself
a promising advantage for the remaining league rounds. The second
candidate for the title, Slavia Praha (34pts) draw a tie 1:1 in Trnava.
Dukla Praha (12pts) contributed a bit to its rescue with a tie 1:1 on
the turf of Banik Ostrava.
FROM THE HISTORY OF CZECHOSLOVAK SPORT
Hockey - the second most popular sport
According to the audience turn-out at winter stadions, hockey seems
to be less popular than football, but the reality is probably somewhere
in the middle.
We can say that the representatives of the quickest world team game
have won more medals for us than football players - 4 silver Olympic
medals (1948,1968,1976,1984), three bronz medals (1964,1972,1992), and
six world master titles. The last time they won at the Prague
Championate in 1985.
Presently 57th world mastery takes place in Germany and for the
first time in history the Czech Republic is represented with its team
who remained in the elite A group as a succedor to the team of
Czechoslovakia. The Czech team is very well off so far - they won the
basic group with a loss of only one point and succeed to the
guarter-final.
For Slovakia long negotiations of International Hockey Federation
on the successorship finished ill-favouredly. In October 1993 they will
play a qualification to succeed to C group. If they win they will
participate at world mastery of C group in March 1994 in the Republic of
South Africa. A question remains - who will play for Slovakia. While
Czech put up a quality team from home players and European
"compatriots", the best Slovakian hockey players play Canadian-American
national hockey league. Though they promised their participance in the
representation, they will hardly be released by their clubs at this
time. If the separation of the former federal representation will not be
shown in Czech, for Slovakia it will surely mean a big decrease.
Theoretically speaking, Slovakia can get to A group as early as in
1996\97 season.
The league will also be played separately after 50 years. The best
Slovakian hockey teams will have in the new year much weaker rivals than
they have had until now. This can mean another drop as far as quality is
concerned.
Jan Zvolanek
WEATHER
Though spring started only recently, weather in the late April is
really summer-like. Night temperature hover around at least 10 degrees,
sometimes they climb up to 15 degrees. Daily 25-degree hot has not been
revealed in ice-cream prices yet - one portion is still for 3-5 crowns.
In comparison with the last week it has not rained almost at all.
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