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...wisecracking, Cuban-cigar-smoking, martini-drinking former Marine Corps fighter pilot, Lutz is passionate about beauty and speed. He not only loves sports cars but also flies his own Czech L39C jet fighter and sometimes commutes to work in his own helicopter. Born to Swiss parents in Zurich, Lutz has always moved back and forth between Europe and the U.S. He smashed his uncle's Ford coupe into a wall at age eight and walked away from a helicopter accident in 1991. He started at GM in 1960, cruised through BMW, lodged at Ford and then landed at Lee Iacocca...
...cynicism's major proposition: bad things happen to good people. But in Dark Blue World, a Czech pilot named Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy), flying with the R.A.F. in World War II, reaches a level of misery rarely touched in the movies...
...Marines have recently been moved into Qatar and Kuwait, prompting fevered speculation that the U.S. is about to move against Iraq. Washington insists it is simply rotating troops, but the Sydney Morning Herald notes that only some 4,000 troops have been rotated out. And the Czech Republic let the cat out of the bag by revealing that the 400 soldiers it has committed for the war on terror may be sent to Kuwait. "The deployment of so many troops may be designed to intimidate Saddam Hussein," the paper suggests. But it may also be the prelude to the battle...
...Leningrad facility near the Gulf of Finland, sources say vodka and drugs flow freely among the workers, most of whom earn barely 3,000 rubles a month--about $100. Poorly paid, highly inebriated men make a shabby line of defense against terrorists and traffickers. Vaclav Havlik, a Czech citizen who was part of a group of uranium smugglers arrested near Munich in 1994, told TIME that obtaining material from Russia was no great chore. "It was like going for vacation by the sea and bringing back a sack of shells," he says...
...some people, it seems ignorance is indeed bliss. "I find the whole thing terribly depressing, and every day there is something worse," says an 80-year-old retired Czech social worker. "My doctor even told me to stop reading the papers. He said, 'Look at me. I don't read the papers, and how do I look?' He looks great...