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Your story on the new production of Brundibar, a long-forgotten children's opera rediscovered by artist Maurice Sendak [OPERA, June 2], managed to exclude any mention of the work's composer Hans Krasa, a Czech who died in Auschwitz in 1944. Can anyone imagine an article about the revival of A Long Day's Journey into Night without a reference to Eugene O'Neill? MICHAEL BORISKIN ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COPLAND HOUSE Cortlandt Manor...
...DAVID JOSEK/AP Czech President Klaus with the Castle Guard...
...troops at Prague Castle. "The green uniforms and plastic ties on a rubber band didn't give the country a good image," says Ladislav Spacek, Havel's former spokesman. Today, the soldiers wear fetching grey-and-blue uniforms, complete with tassels and shoulder braids in the colors of the Czech flag, and their changing-of-the-guard ceremonies attract scores of tourists. But last week the unit was once again a source of national embarrassment, following revelations that nine soldiers stripped for a porn website and two others face criminal charges for posing as police and shaking down prostitutes. President...
...former director of Czechoslovakia's Central Communications Authority; to four years in jail for helping the Soviet Union crush the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement; in Prague. Hoffmann ordered a media blackout to prevent news spreading about the Soviet invasion of the country. He is the first high-ranking Czech official to be convicted for involvement in thwarting the Prague Spring...
...Suspicious Minds Last week Britain's largest arms maker, BAE, was attacked from all sides. France's Thales dismissed claims that it approached BAE about a merger. Meanwhile, BAE was busily denying accusations that it bribed Czech officials...