Word: czeched
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Less than three years after Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution," the country announced the preliminary terms of a "velvet divorce." Slovak Vladimir Meciar and Czech Vaclav Klaus, whose parties gained pluralities in their respective republics in elections earlier this month, agreed last week to form an interim federal government. It will function chiefly as a liquidation committee for the 74-year-old state, and by Sept. 30 the details creating separate Czech and Slovak republics should be ironed...
BELIEVERS IN A UNIFIED CZECHOSLOVAKIA MAY NOW regret that Vaclav Havel's 1989 "velvet revolution" wasn't the "Velcro revolution" instead. Parliamentary elections have revealed deepening differences between Czechs and Slovaks, thus increasing the chances that the 74-year-old federation will become unstitched like the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Last week, after the autonomy-seeking Movement for a Democratic Slovakia topped the polling in the Slovak republic, the group's leader, Vladimir Meciar, pressed his demand for a total rearrangement of Czech-Slovak relations...
Prime Minister-designate Vaclav Klaus, whose Civic Democratic Party won the largest number of votes in the Czech republic, met with Meciar in two rounds of talks that ended with mutual accusations of intransigence. "The other side refuses to accept anything we are proposing," said Klaus, who has the support of Havel, the country's first postcommunist President. Part of the problem is that Slovaks believe their economically depressed republic bears the brunt of Klaus' radical proposals for privatization and austerity. But several thousand Czechs signed petitions in Prague calling for an independent Czech republic, complaining that Slovaks were backward...
...Economic Aspects of the Czech-SlovakConflict--by Alex Capek, Institute ofEconomics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.CES, Cabot Seminar Room, 27 Kirkland St., 4:15p.m...
...Canadian who lives in suburban Baltimore, and had been dismissed as coach of the N.H.L.'s Pittsburgh Penguins before hooking up with the team from his father's homeland. The top-seeded Swedes have four former or current N.H.L. All-Stars. Rounding things out, there is a Czech defector on the German team and half a dozen Quebecois on the surprisingly successful French squad...