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...partners, many enjoy longtime links through immigrant communities to those who have recently taken power. Says Chicago businessman Donald Mucha, 58, who exports machinery components to his native Poland: "It's exciting to be on the inside of rebuilding a nation." Known as the returniks, these natives of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and other new bastions of private enterprise are helping manufacture consumer goods and build housing, hotels and department stores...
...Bata's visit to Prague last December at the invitation of the new Czechoslovakian leadership was a particularly joyful journey. At 75, he heads Toronto-based Bata Shoe, which made 300 million pairs of shoes last year. Founded in 1894 by his father in the Moravian town of Zlin, Czechoslovakia, the firm was nationalized by the Communists in 1945. The family moved to Canada and proceeded to build the world's largest shoe company...
...strictly against repeating that mistake. Germany, and that includes a unified Germany, is part of the Western community of shared values. We cannot accept anything less. It is remarkable that all Warsaw Pact countries except the Soviet Union are for full German membership in NATO. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia are in favor of it -- unconditionally and completely. Why? Simply because they do not want Germany to be isolated. The U.S., all our other allies and the Germans themselves should raise this issue in their talks with the Soviet Union. I think there is a chance here for a positive conclusion...
...those who want to take home more than snapshots, each country has something special. It is fun browsing through art shops in Poland and pottery and glassware stores in Czechoslovakia. The Hungarian state record company presses high-quality classical records that can be bought for about half of what they would cost in the West. Hungarian wine is also worth the money, as is Bulgarian. In the villages west of Cluj, delicately embroidered tablecloths are sold for the equivalent of a few dollars...
...Czechoslovakia the government questioned five former Communist leaders, including General Secretary Milos Jakes, over their role in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of their country. But the move was taken on the eve of the country's first free elections since 1946, and thus was seen as a bit of cheap political opportunism by Civic Forum, President Vaclav Havel's ruling coalition and easy winner at the polls...