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...actually happened. There were speeches, cheers and parades, but the German surrender had been signed early on May 7, and almost all the fighting had ended well before that. "We play softball every afternoon," a member of the U.S. 667th Field Artillery Battalion, at a German village near the Czech border, wrote in his diary. "I've had a shower, two movies and a U.S.O. show." Wrote one of his buddies: "V-E day. Just another day. Didn't seem to make a hell of a lot of difference...
...plan was for her to be featured in the background. Somehow she moved to the fore. "Her personality came through," is how Photographer Patrick Demarchelier explains it. Porizkova thinks that the fuss she's already heard about the pictures is much ado about nothing. In Sweden where the Czech-born beauty grew up, "there's not a woman on the beach under 80 who wears a top." Perhaps. But few of them have as much personality. --By Richard Lacayo
...addition to plotting future books, Chen says he enjoys gardening and traveling. He also hopes to spend part of his retirement with his 88-year-old mother in Taiwan and his twin brother, who he says is currently an ambassador to the Czech Republic for Taiwan...
...Czechs Like the E.U. Re "10 questions for Vaclav Klaus" [March 21]: I would like to express my deep disagreement with the way Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, expresses his skepticism about a "stronger" European Union. Klaus uses the pronouns we and us, so it might seem like he is speaking on behalf of the whole Czech nation and expressing the opinion of all Czechs. That is definitely not the case. He doesn't speak for me, and opinion polls show a lot of support for the new E.U. constitution. So Klaus and the Czech Communist Party represent...
...Sokol says his registration as "agent" was forged and denies informing on his peers. "I sleep well," he told TIME. "My conscience is clear." Sokol is planning to sue to clear his name. The reliability of the StB records has been found wanting in the past. In the neighboring Czech Republic, where StB files were first officially released in 1996, around 800 people have so far challenged the accuracy of their records in the courts, and 70% have succeeded in clearing their names, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior. Still, other Catholic clergymen have appeared on StB lists...