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DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...
...Polish army colonel who was one of the CIA's most valuable spies during the cold war; after a stroke; in Tampa, Fla. He fought for his native country against the Nazis in World War II but became disenchanted in 1968 when he witnessed the Poles preparing to invade Czechoslovakia. From 1972 to '81, he provided some 35,000 pages of documents to the CIA, intelligence that an agency analyst said "virtually defined our knowledge" of the Warsaw Pact, and may have helped prevent a Soviet invasion of Poland...
Albright, who emigrated to America at age eight from the former Czechoslovakia, first served as the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations before she became Secretary of State in 1997, making her the highest ranked female in the history of American government...
...aspic - is a culinary turnoff. But for Jirí Hlavácek, a butcher in Susice, south Bohemia, it was for years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlavácek went into the meat business in 1991 at the exact same spot where, four decades earlier, Czechoslovakia's communists confiscated his grandfather's meat shop. His headcheese became a sought-after delicacy, praised for being uniquely ungreasy and lean (one secret: he uses pork knees). Then about six years ago, business started to flag. Supermarket chains, able to command lower purchasing prices from suppliers, squeezed Hlav...
Around a year after Kozeny graduated from Harvard, he founded an investment company called Harvard Capital and Consulting (HC&C), which provided investment opportunities and financial consulting in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1992, Kozeny told The New York Times that he used the Harvard name for his company because he has a B.A. in economics from Harvard. The Harvard tag aided the company’s ability to channel millions of dollars into the Czechoslovakian economy as it was privatizing its financial market, according to the newspaper...