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...quote I look to for inspiration whenever I get a little bit down is from [playwright and Czech Republic president] Vaclav Havel," Stephanopoulos said. "Politics can't just be the art of the possible, but also the art of the impossible: changing people's lives for the better...
...Proving that his is not a one-issue candidacy, presidential contender Steve Forbes gave Ted Koppel a glimpse of his foreign policy on ABC's "Night Line" Wednesday. Forbes suggested that the United States stop the arms-control talks known as START II, and allow Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic into NATO. He added that he was not in favor of sending American peacekeepers to the Golan Heights. But it was his statement suggesting that the U.S. move "ahead with a sensible anti-ballistic missile defense system" that may invite more snickering from his opponents. The multi-billion-dollar...
...sense, the frenzied activity at the air base will be misleading. Fewer than 1,000 of the 20,000 American peace enforcers will be encamped around Tuzla by Christmas. Many others will be aboard trains rumbling through Austria and the Czech Republic en route to jumping-off points in Hungary, from which they will advance 50-odd miles across Croatia into Bosnia and Herzegovina. Others will still be at bases in Germany, waiting their turn to board the trains; some may not leave until February. Army commanders strongly deny, however, that the buildup is slipping behind schedule. Says Colonel Mike...
...wasn't for that damn Czech class you signed up for on Tuesday afternoon, you might have been privy to the winter beach in Sever Quad. How free it would have felt to don a houndstooth check bikini in winter and beg disgusted onlookers to rub sun tan lotion on your back. Oh, to be scum in Harvard Yard on a Tuesday afternoon...
Sadly, the ancient hatred of Gypsies for their supposed deviousness has revived since communism collapsed in Eastern Europe. In Romania and the Czech Republic, mobs have burned Gypsies' homes and beaten their occupants, sometimes to death. Police and legal authorities have generally condoned these atrocities. In desperation, thousands of East European Gypsies--500,000 in 1991 alone--have applied for asylum in the West. Rather than accept repatriation after a 1992 pact between Germany and Romania, Romanian Gypsies in German relocation camps destroyed their identity cards. They were deported anyway...