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...Shadowy Foreigners: Dubai-based Godolphin Stables will ship two runners to Louisville--50-1 sleepers China Visit and Curule. Nobody knows much about the pair, except that both have won big-money races at hometown Nad al-Sheba racetrack. Godolphin's horses arrived late and only came out of quarantine on Tuesday, then had modest workouts at Churchill. Most handicappers have dismissed the mysterious men from the East, but China Visit's eye-catching win in the March 25 UAE Derby (where he returned $38 for a $2 ticket) has longshot-happy railbirds thinking of a triple-digit payout...
...accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed from Czechoslovakia...
...union is fueled partly by ethnic animosity, often expressed as resentment of a "big brother" arrogance on the part of the Czechs. But it also reflects the Prague government's refusal to keep subsidizing such Slovak heavy industries as the aluminum plant in the town of Ziad Nad Hronom, an antiquated, pollution-belching monster. Whether an independent Slovakia can keep such industries going is questionable. Unemployment in Slovakia is already 12%, four times the Czech rate, and it has been held to that level only with the aid of heavy subsidies coming from Prague. But having threatened to secede...
...least 50,000 people rallied in Bratislava, and CTK also reported protest rallies in the Bohemian city of Usti nad Labem to the north, Gottwaldov to the east and Ostrova on the Polish border...
Huge crowds of workers also poured into the streets of Bratislava, the east Slovak industrial center of Kosice, the mining center of Ostrava on the polish border, and Usti nad Labem, the heart of industrial north Bohemia...