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...past year and a half, an investment company calling itself Harvard Capital and Consulting (HC&C) has been offering investment opportunities and other business services like financial advice and corporate law in Czechoslovakia, The New York Times reported last week...
...registered foreigners represent 6.5% of the total Austrian population; 100,000 more are thought to have entered the country illegally. But Austria has prospered despite the influx. Through most of the 1980s, it boasted the lowest unemployment rate in Europe outside tiny Luxembourg. Since the immigrants come mostly from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, they "aren't greatly different in cultural and religious terms" from native Austrians, says political scientist Anton Pelinka. That they should nevertheless encounter such strong resentment, he says, "doesn't bode well for a united Europe...
EASTERN EUROPE. While Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia strive more or less successfully to replace communism with Western-style democracy, in other former Soviet satellites the alternative to red rule seems to be a mystic nationalism based on blood and soil. That holds particularly true for the main antagonists in the Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman...
Upset about skyrocketing marijuana prices in the U.S., which range to $800 per oz.? Then book a flight to Czechoslovakia. A garden-supply chain in Prague is selling 1-lb. packages of pot imported from neighboring Romania for the equivalent of just 85 cents. According to the manager of the state-owned company, the weed is an effective "fertilizer." Thanks to the country's confused postcommunist legal system, it is not against the law just to purchase the "fertilizer." When the product's availability was disclosed in the Czechoslovak weekly Mlady Svet, dozens of Prague teenagers developed a sudden interest...
From France to the Soviet Union, Poland to Czechoslovakia, underground movements harried the Germans -- sometimes at a horrendous cost. On May 27, 1942, two Czechoslovak agents based in London who had been parachuted into Czechoslovakia five months earlier were activated. Their target: Reinhard Heydrich, "the Butcher of Prague," the SS Obergruppenfuhrer who was a major organizer of the Holocaust that was engulfing Europe's Jews. The Czechoslovaks killed Heydrich in a bomb attack as he drove into Prague, but the retribution was terrible: the Nazis murdered 1,300 Czechoslovaks immediately; 3,000 Jews were sent to Poland to be killed...