Word: jaromir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deputy Premier Jaromir Zak said on state-run TV that after long discussion, it was decided to drop the article enshrining the leading role of the Communists in the constitution from a new draft of the document...
Talk about empty gestures. Along with representatives from 34 other countries, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes arrived in Vienna last week to attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally...
...gave new meaning to the phrase "no-frills flying." Jaromir Wagner, a 41-year-old West German car dealer, risked his life on a twelve-day, seven-stop journey from his homeland to the U.S.-without heat, seat, coffee, tea or milk. For the sake of what he called "the thrill" and at a cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact...