Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McVeigh was obsessed with guns. He often kept a 9-mm Glock pistol in the barracks with him -- not locked up in the arms room, as rules require. His personal arsenal, including a Czech machine gun and assorted pistols, shotguns and rifles, was stashed in the trunk of his car. Still, neither Littleton nor Guild would have pegged McVeigh as a terrorist. "Something happened to Tim McVeigh between the time he left the Army and now," Guild says...
...Czech Republic has successfully negotiated its transition from communism to a full-fledged market economy, said the republic's prime minister in a speech on political economy at the Kennedy School last night...
...Carnesale, provost and dean of the Kennedy School, introduced the prime minister, calling him the "architect" of the Czech Republic's economic miracle. Klaus criticized some economists' allegations that the Czech Republic is currently in the throes of an extended recession...
Flanked on both sides by grimfaced Czech security officers, Klaus said that his country was officially in the "post-transformation" stage...
Later in 1990, Havel effectively broke the international isolation of Austrian Nazi-cum-President Kurt Waldheim by visiting him in Salzburg. Havel did castigate the still-dissembling Waldheim by telling him, "Lying can never save us from the lie." Yet the Czech leader's visit unjustifiably dignified Waldheim...