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...bulk of them in the restive and depressed region of Slovakia, depend on it. The federal government has pledged to cut output to 25% of 1988 levels by 1993, but already Slovak politicians have slowed down that timetable to stave off mass unemployment. Last month federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa took a scolding from his Israeli counterpart, Yitzhak Shamir, over a still pending agreement to sell 100 T-72 tanks to Syria in a deal worth $200 million. "Czechoslovakia is not interested in producing tanks," countered Calfa. "But we don't want to break the economy of a region...
...side" another revered ghost from 1968. Alexander Dubcek, the former leader who launched the Prague Spring, was restored to a post of power, after two decades of internal exile, by being elected the legislature's new presiding officer. The stately transition was completed on Friday, when Prime Minister Marian Calfa, whose Communist Party colleagues so long denounced Havel as a slanderer of the state, praised him as "a man who is faithful to his beliefs despite persecution." After Havel was unanimously elected, he emerged to tell supporters, "I will not disappoint you, but will lead this country to free elections...
...Government. After only four days as Deputy Prime Minister, Marian Calfa won the top job last week when Ladislav Adamec quit. At week's end Calfa offered to form a Cabinet in which half the members would have no ties to the Communist Party...
After the talks recessed for the day, CTK reported that Calfa will meet tonight with those who attended the opening talks to try to have a new government sworn in by tomorrow. He did not take part in yesterday's discussions...
...quoted Bohuslav Kucera, chair of the small Socialist Party, as saying yesterday's meetings helped all parties involved "reach a great consensus" that should enable Calfa to form a new government...