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...another village 20 miles away, Polish entrepreneurs are carrying on a lively trade in rubber dinghies that will ferry migrants across the Oder River to Germany. Farther south, the activities of similar "travel agencies" directed or supervised by criminal gangs crowd the towns along the Czech- & German border. Pilsen is so jammed with migrants from Bosnia and Croatia that its native Czech residents call it "Yugoslav City." That is partly a misnomer because while many of those in transit are from war-ravaged segments of the former Yugoslavia, other thousands are Bulgarians, Romanians, Turks and Russians. All of them, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Slams the Door | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Another Olympic champion, Thomas Lange of Germany, narrowly beat Vaclav Chalupa, the Olympic silver medalist from the Czech Republic, in the single sculls...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Crew Team Triumphs At Henley-on-Thames | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

...When Clinton announced Madeline Albright's nomination to be ambassador to the U.N., her comments about her father, a Czech diplomat who sought asylum in the U.S.)) "brought tears to Mr. Clinton's eyes." -- DALLAS MORNING NEWS, December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands Have No Tears to Flow, but Presidents Do | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...Saturday nights, as many as 300 young women line the margins of E55, a Czech highway near the German border. Their costumes vary: light frocks, skimpy red dresses, glow-in-the-dark Spandex pants. They speak a babel of languages: Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German. But they have only one thing to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...visas and head home, loaded with color television sets. At the Gallery, a Brussels nightclub, a naked Hungarian couple thrash about in what appears to be a live sex act, to tape-recorded groans. Across the Belgian capital at the Aloha Club, Lenka, a 21-year-old Czech stripper, outfitted in fake leopard skin, entertains clients with $470 magnums of champagne. Half the peep shows in town are now staffed by East Europeans -- up from 1% three years ago, according to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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