Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once the degrees have been granted, Rudenstine and Czech President Vaclav Havel Will deliver addressesat the afternoon ceremony which starts at 2:15p.m...
...University will confer honorary degrees today on 10 people, including Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Who will deliver the Commencement address, architect I.M. Pei, Painter Jacob Lawrence and former University Chicago President Hanna H. Gray...
...Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed from Czechoslovakia...
Toward dusk we reached Jindrichovice, the place where the truck journey had ended and the long walk begun. The village lay quiet in the rain. In its midst, just below the church, we came across a marble slab with a gilded, five-pointed star and the Czech inscription in eternal memory of those who died in the second world war. The little monument looked new-apparently erected after communism fell in 1989. The words embraced all: winners and losers, soldiers and civilians, the innocent and the guilty. To Lubos and me, men whose people had been at war with...
...Tajikistan, beset by civil war, the government suppressed all independent media. In Armenia police habitually raid editorial offices. In Romania journalists are often under surveillance. In Slovakia a proposed law would provide one- to five-year jail sentences for journalists who "demean" the country from abroad. In Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary the situation is better, but everywhere governments exert pressure by controlling paper supplies, distribution facilities and especially broadcast licenses...