Word: brno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brno, opposition leaders said the noontime action was to show support for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, who is considered a favorite to succeed Husak. Posters plastered throughout central Prague showed a smiling Havel with the caption, "Havel to the Castle," a reference to the seat of the presidency...
Demonstrations were also reported in Bratislava, Brno, Plsen, Hradec Kralove, Ceske Budejovice, Kosice and other cities...
Czechoslovak TV said at least 200,000 people took part in the march in the capital. It also reported 20,000 protesters in the city of Brno, 10,000 in Bratislava and 5000 in Liberec...
...extraordinary feat in this economy. The Czechs were once famous throughout Europe for their strict orderliness and scrupulous honesty, but that reputation is now tarnished. Everyone cuts a corner here, steals something there. Lubomir, for example, is a 34-year-old boiler repairman in the city of Brno. His monthly salary is $350. He works about five hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On Thursdays he sells on the black market spare parts that he has filched on the job. Then he spends a long weekend at his two-bedroom country house some 40 miles from Brno, returning to work...
...Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...