Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization of core institutions, from the national bank to oil pipelines to management of minority affairs...
...Wenceslas Square, Bush's evocative words raised a great roar: "There are no leaves on the trees, and yet it is Prague spring. There are no flowers in bloom, and yet it is Prague spring." In the huge crowd, vendors sold copies of the U.S. Constitution for 8 Czech crowns (30 cents) each...
...actress-model who starred in the destruction of Gary Hart's career is getting inadvertent help from a more successful candidate: Vaclav Havel. However, Rice got poor notices for her Virginia performance as a student who offers herself to a professor in the Czech leader's Largo Desolato...
Your article "Czech Officials Ask for U.S. Financial Aid" of 5 October 1990 misrepresents the message of Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier. Czechoslovakia has been notable among the former Communist countries in that it has not asked Western countries for any direct financial...
Dienstbier noted that in the last national elections 90 percent of the Czech people voted while too few people in the United States vote...