Word: klaus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joke making the rounds in Prague has a group of people, among them Czechoslovak Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus, asked to identify an upturned bottle top. All except Klaus give the expected answer. The Minister, who proposes radical reforms that would cut deeply into living standards, pauses only briefly before answering: "It's a pan for frying steak...
...While Klaus' plans are less drastic than the wags imply, he has a reputation for toughness. President Vaclav Havel himself has long argued that Klaus' shock therapy is too severe and would produce civil unrest...
...Havel's moderation suffered a setback last week when Klaus easily defeated the President's candidate to become the new chairman of the Civic Forum alliance. Although aides admitted the vote was a blow to the President, Havel's response was statesmanlike. He invited Klaus for a beer and called in the press to photograph them drinking happily together...
...biggest catch so far is Klaus Kuron, 54, a senior West German counterintelligence officer who was responsible for turning East German spies working in West Germany into double agents. When Kuron surrendered last week, he confessed that he had been a double agent himself, providing the Stasi with top-secret information over the past eight years, including the identities of those who had worked for him. The Stasi paid Kuron $2,500 a month for his disloyalty. "That is the highest goal there is -- to put an agent exactly where Kuron was," said a shaken Heribert Hellenbroich, a former chief...
Reversal of Fortune stars Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons and Ron Silver as Dershowitz, and shows how the law professor successfully handled the appeal for the millionaire Klaus Von Bulow, who was convicted of attempting to murder his wife...