Word: czechs
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...GULF Czech Mates If U.S. troops go into battle in Iraq, they will be grateful for a small force of Czechs behind them. Why? Because the Czechs are experts in detecting and defending against chemical and biological attacks, skills picked up during the cold war. But the biggest dangers might not come from missiles bearing nerve agent or VX gas. "Saddam may use nonmilitary chemicals and rig up booby traps that detonate when you open a door or step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence...
DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born pioneer of the 1960s British New Wave, whose influential films of the period included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Morgan!; of a blood disorder; in London. He also directed the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...employs only 22,000 workers as companies have moved jobs to cheaper locations overseas. Joining the exodus is Goldpfeil, one of Germany's iconic leather-goods brands, which announced last week that it is laying off 70 of its 200 artisans and moving production to subcontractors in the Czech Republic and China, where labor costs are only a fifth of those in Germany. Hans-Jörg Seeberger, ceo of EganaGoldpfeil Group, says Germany is no longer competitive - and blames Schröder. "Nobody can pay these wages anymore. The unions are too strong," he says. "There's a general...
...DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born film director who was a seminal figure in the renaissance of gritty British cinema in the 1960s; in London. Reisz is perhaps best known for directing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which launched British actor Albert Finney's career, and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), an acclaimed adaptation of the John Fowles novel...
...that Eastern and Central European countries were not doing enough to prevent terrorist groups from funneling men and money into the E.U. Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in London, warns that the large numbers of Middle Eastern students in the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria "could be breeding grounds for terrorist activities." The arrest in London of a North African who had lived in Slovakia for a year did nothing to dispel these fears. Rabah Kadre and two other North African Muslims were arrested under the Terrorism Act, but their...