Word: czech
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...with Polish forces as early as this year. But while strengthening links, the Partnership will fall far short of full membership in the Western alliance. That status carries a sensitive and binding security guarantee -- that an attack on one is an attack on all. Central Europeans, especially the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians, have been clamoring for full membership because they perceive a "security vacuum" in the region. They argue in essence that the West is naive to believe the Russians can be anything but imperialists. NATO, they add, owes them protection as they struggle to develop democratic, free-market societies...
After stroking the leaders of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Prague, Clinton will arrive in Moscow on Wednesday for three days of talks. One person he will not meet is the politician who set off the alarms in Central Europe and a flurry of reconsiderations in Washington: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Moscow's ascendant neofascist. When he learned Clinton would not see him, Zhirinovsky, whose party won about 23% of the popular vote in last month's parliamentary elections, launched into one of his frequent tirades. He said the President's decision showed he was "a coward" who should...
...means by a "politics of meaning," I'd probably be for it. But the kind of political morality that we need in our politics has nothing to do with sexual propriety; it consists essentially of accepting one's responsibility to participate in the direction of everyone's affairs. As Czech President Vaclav Havel has written, "If you are modest and do not lust after power, not only are you suited for politics, you absolutely belong there...
...Spielberg says, "this movie didn't need my strengths as a storyteller because the story's already been told." Here he is being too modest. It was surely the screen storyteller in him who responded to the compelling narrative strength of Thomas Keneally's novelized life of a German- Czech named Oskar Schindler, who came to Poland to make money out of its - occupation by the Nazis and stayed to preserve 1,100 Jews -- workers in the enamelware factory he established -- from the death camps...
...forward Jason Karmanos and freshman defenseman Ashland Halfnight were each named yesterday to the United States Junior National Team. The select squad will be competing in the World Junior Championships, a round-robin competition for the world's top Under-20 players to be held just outside of Prague, Czech Republic from December 26 until January...