Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until the U.S. insisted on bombing the Serbs. But in Washington last week, where the Senate voted to bring three new members into NATO, supporters attributed magical qualities to the alliance, including the power to make the whole Continent peaceful and prosperous. Bill Clinton said the inclusion of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland began the fulfillment of "the dream of a generation, a Europe that is united, democratic and secure...
...NATO Expansion. Speaking of Europe, should America's sons and daughters die defending Warsaw, Prague or Budapest? Surprisingly, few outside elite foreign policy circles seem to care that America is considering expanding our European security agreement to include Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Is greater piece-of-mind for those countries worth the risk of provoking a struggling and paranoid Russia? If Cold War-like tensions do arise once again, this decision--whichever way it goes--could become one of those fateful moments that historians will one day study and wonder "How could they have been so stupid...
Recent speakers include Harold Varmus, directorof the National Institutes of Health, in 1996;Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, in1995; Vice President Al Gore '69, in 1994 andGeneral Colin Powell, former chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff...
...Russians copied from the Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...
...Czech hockey goal that humbled the Russians before the entire world in Nagano was a victory of ideas over simple raw power, much like the political relation of the two countries for the past 50 years. How sweet it is that the player who scored the winning goal was named Svoboda. His name, in both languages, means freedom...