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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
Czech Republic
e-mail: CAROLINA@cuni.cz
tel: (+42 2) 24810804, ext. 252, fax: (+42 2) 24810987
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C A R O L I N A No 149, Friday, March 3, 1995.
Dear Readers of Carolina!
I am terribly sorry but the English version of Carolina No. 149 has just
been deleted from the harddisk of our "Carolina" computer by accidance
and cannot be undeleted anymore. Our English editor has already left and
my knowledge of Englich is too poor for translating into English.
Under a preasure of time, I decided to give you some short "reader's
digest" of what supposed to be the content of current issue. I hope that
the text will remain at least understandable.
With apology for raping a mother language of so many nice people
faithfully yours
Jan Jirak
Klaus and Havel in Agreement over Czech-German Relations
Franz Neubauer, spokesperson for the Sudetan Germans, criticised
a speech given by Czech president Vaclav Havel on February 17, in
Prague's Carolina. In an interview with German paper Die Welt, Neubauer
said that in evaluating the problems of the Sudetan Germans in former
Czechoslovakia, Havel can not hold his ground against "historical
experts." He went on to emphasize that the Sudetan Germans are not
offsetting compensation of Czech victims with Nazism, but are requesting
compensation for "German victims of Czech wrongdoing".
Ulrich Irmer, foreign political spokesperson for the German Free
Democrat Part evaluated Havel's speech favorably. The statements of
Sudetan German union are overestimated in Czech Republic, said Irmer.
Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus supported the opinion of president
Havel during his speech in Hamburg, Germany.
Italian Preident Visiting Czech Republic
Italian president Oscaro Luigi Scalfaro arrived to Prague for three day
visit. He met with Vaclav Havel a claimed satisfaction with the level of
Czech - Italian relations and expressed the Italian support of
membership of Czech republic in all European structures. Italian
president welcome the preparation of the agreement of good relations and
cooperation between Czech Republic and Italy.
Prime Ministers of Czech Republic and Hungary Met Last Monday
Vaclav Klaus and Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn met on Monday and
discussed way of increasing the economic connections, decreasing the
import taxex on agricultural goods, agree ment on protection of
investment and other topics.
According to Hungarian Prime Minister, the main interest of Hungary in
mutual relations with CR is a balanced trade. To help in reaching this
goal, Czech government should support state purchase of Hunngarian
goods. Klaus mentioned a possibility of purchasing Hungarian buses
Ikarus, metro wagons, healthcare instruments etc.
The Czech Republic and Drug Trade
Multinational gangs use countries of the Eastern block as a transfer
area increasingly. According to the UN International Board for Drug
Control, South American traders even chose the Prague airport of Ruzyne
for handing over the consignment.
Heroin gets to Europe in lorries from Turkey and Pakistan, cocain is
smuggled by Colombian cartels which send the consignments by air.
Eastern European countries that had so far been just the transfer
countries for drugs are becoming target countries. With the inflow of
drugs, criminality rises, mostly money-laundering, prostitution and
bribery.
A contraband of cocaine has been discovered by the police on Feb 24
on the Ruzyne airport. A special anti-drug squad detained a Colombian
who arrived by the airline Bogota-Frankfurt-Prague. Two kilograms of the
drug were hidden in the double bottom of his suitcase. The police and
customs officers had known about the matter in advance and thus they
managed to get ready.
The greatest success has been so far achieved at the border crossing
in Nachod. In 1991 nearly 100 kg of cocaine was unveiled there.
Last year's illegal trade deal with efedrine has presently become
a great offence. The International Board for Drug Control published
a report on an attempt to sell illegally to Mexico 50 tons of efedrine
coming probably from a Czech pharmaceutical firm.
The Celebration of WWII
After a long lasting confusion over how to commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of liberation from fascism, the government approved of
a conception of the commemorations of the end of World War II. It is
not clear so far which delegations will be invited. Vaclav Havel said
after the government meeting that the opinion to invite even the German
representatives won in the discussion. Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus,
however, said it was not decided yet and warned at the same time that
the issue "should not be turned into a internal political problem".
The Czech Association of Fighters for Freedom, where also war
veterans are associated, defied the visit of German officials. The
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) entertains the opinion
that there should be living representatives of German anti-Fascist
forces. The Czech Social Democratic Party chairman (CSSD) Milos Zeman
would invite those Germans for whom 8th May 1945 meant liberation from
Nazism. His party colleague H. Orgonikova would invite no German
delegation as she considers it "immoral".
On the contrary, the nonparliamentary Free Democrats assume fifty
years after the war European states should not be divided into the
winners and the defeated. Government coalition are mostly affirmative
about possible participance of the German delegation. The Minister of
transport Jan Strasky is an exception saying Germans should not be
present at the undertaking.
The list of official guests and a blueprint of commemorations will
be worked out within a fortnight.
New Weapons for Czech Army?
Czech Republic cannot afford to buy expensive military technology from
teh United States and countries of Western Europe, said Prime Minister
Vaclav Klaus and head commander of Czech Army top management Jiri
Nekvasil. Though the American technology is the best, the Czech Army
must rely upon updating of Soviet tanks and aircrafts.
Humanitarian Aid to Cheycheynia
Thre trucks with humanitarian aid for people who escaped from
Cheycheynia left Prague on February 28. The aid has been organized by
the Adventist Agency for Help and Development (ADKA).
The trucks has arrive to Nazra town on March 1. There are about
a hundred thousand people waiting there for help. Two truck are
financially supproed by the Czech government, the third one by funds
given by supporters, helpers and colaborators of the Agency.
FROM SLOVAKIA
The Changes in Slovak Intelligence Service
The director of Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) Vladimir Mitra send
a letter to Slovak president Michal Kovac asking him for a permission to
leave the position of director of SIS. Slovak president did not accepted
the letter and will not do it before he get the name of a new candidate.
ECONOMY
Export vs. Import
The import to CR is bigger that the export from CR for last nine months.
The true is that the import is increasing but the export is remaining on
the same level.
CULTURE
The Residence of Czech Monarchs Was Damaged By a Foreign Vandal
One of the walls of castle Karlstejn was significantly damaged last
week by tourists during a sightseeing tour. This national, cultural and
historic building was founded in 14th century by the emperor Karel IV.
(Charles 4th) as a place for the czech crown jewels.
On the renaissance fasade with the original gotic base and the
inscriptions from 16th century, an unknow offender made a grafitti. He
put a three feet high orange ornament on a dark wall. The same motive
appeared on one of the battlement's tooth during the day .
The representative of the warden of castle Tomas Rehor said that in
during the time of a crime, two groups were in the castle, a Danish one
and some Italian. The Italian visitors have been held before they leave
the castle, and the police examine them. The offender has not been
identified.
The restoration will cost some 15 thousand krowns minimum. The
offenders, if arrested, are threatened for the damage of the monument
from 6 months to 3 years. Tereza Hadrova
Pin for a Butterfly - Fifties Seen by a Small Girl
The movie production company Heureka film brought to our cinemas a
new movie made by British director of Czech origin Hannah Kodicek Pin
for a Butterfly.
The story takes place during the hard period of fifties in former
Czechoslovakia. The whole story is seen by the eyes of the main hero,
the six year old girl Maruska. The child's view on such a complicated
period of Czech history is quite exeptional in our cinamatografy.
We should mention the acting of of Florence Hoathova (Maruska), the
camera of Ivan Slapeta and the directing of H. Kodicek.
The film is presented in Czech cinemas in the original English
version with subtitles.
Tomas Kopecny
The Programme CT 2 Should Remain Still in Czech Television
In Czech republic should still remain two public television
channels. This was the decision of the participant's of Friday's meeting
and the prime minister Vaclav Klaus.
According to the Mlada fronta Dnes daily, entertaining programmes
would disappear from Czech television in case the public TV has only one
channel. The director of the competitive private television Nova
Vladimir Zelezny, is also regarding the requirments of CT for two
chanels acceptable. According to his saying the advertising market in CR
is not large enough to support another complete commercial station.
In Czech republic three television stations boradcast on
a nationalwide level. network. Czech television covers two of them,
a private TV Nova covers the third one. The fourth is currently formed
through connection of regional stations by the private TV station
Premiera. According to the newest results of statistical research the
most watched TV station is Nova, then CT 1 and CT 2. Jindrich Jirasek
SPORTS
Who Will Participate in Czech Playoff?
There are four hockey teams (Litvinov, Slavia Praha, Sparta Praha and
Vitkovice) which can still enter the last round of Czech extraleague,
the playoff stage. The strongest candidates for playoff are Slavia and
Sparta
Round 42: Sparta Praha - Vitkovice 6:1
Zlin - Vsetin 1:5
Plzen - Kladno 1:4
Litvinov - Pardubice 4:6
Ceske Budejovice - Olomouc 4:5
Jihlava - Slavia Praha 4:5
Round 43 Slavia Praha - Litvinov 3:2
Kladno - Sparta Praha 5:3
Pardubice - Olomouc 6:2
Vsetin - Jihlava 5:1
Vitkovice - Zlin 3:1
Plzen - Ceske Budejovice 2:1
The Results of Round 16 of the Socker National League
The first game of the spring part, the duel between Boby Brno and Slavia
Praha in Brno, was visited by 35.000 visitors.
Round 16 Boby Brno - Slavia Praha 1:2
Sparta Praha - Petra Drnovice 4:0
Hradec Kralove - Viktoria Zizkov 2:1
Viktoria Plzen - Slovan Liberec 2:1
Banik Ostrava - FK Jablonec 2:1
Ceske Budejovice - Svarc Benesov 1:1
Bohemians Praha - Sigma Olomouc 0:1
Svit Zlin - Union Cheb 3:2
Last Comment:
I really do apologize for all the mistakes in the English version. I was
informed by our technicians that the whole thing happenned because of
short failure of electric power in the system. I hope you will get the
normal and usable issue of Carolina No. 150.
Have a nice week!
Yours Jan
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