Word: slavia
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...fake turf, losing a bright orange football to an opponent. Frustrated cries burst from a gang of dedicated sexa-to-octogenerian fans. "Strike it! Oh my God! What's he doing?!" the men holler, bundled in heavy coats. Some of them have been following this once-famed Prague club, Slavia, for seven decades...
...ACCORD IN BOSNIA... Bosnia, Croatia and Yugo slavia--the latter acting for the Bosnian Serbs--reached an agreement that maintains Bosnia's territorial integrity but creates a separate Bosnian Serb state within its borders. The talks, held in Geneva, were "an important milestone in the search for peace," said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Further negotiations on the deal, which gives the aggressor Serbs a full 49% of Bosnia, are to resume this week...
...there with the wary air of men exploring some dark continent. They were surprised to dis cover that many Czechs were familiar with the plays of Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee, and had kept abreast of other Western cultural developments. If they dropped into Prague's Café Slavia around 4 p.m. any afternoon, they could have encountered several of the reasons why. A group of artists and writers who meet there have for years been assiduously importing and translating Western books, plays and art publications. One of their leaders is slender...
...homebred critics, Yugo slavia's Marshal Tito has known few with the prickly persistence of Milovan Djilas, his onetime Vice President, close friend and confidant. Djilas has been sniping at Communist repression since the early 1950s, and for his efforts he has spent 81 of the last ten years in Yugoslavia's dank Sremska Mitrovica prison, where he wrote the major part of two blistering books, The New Class and Conversations with Stalin, which caused something of a sensation when they were published in the West. Last week Tito granted Djilas a pardon, and the writer was free...
...nomics. "Yugoslav society is ready for democracy and does not want anyone, in any central committee, in any single party, to decide what people may or may not know about the world, about life and political events," he wrote last July. It is a measure of how far Yugo slavia has moved that Mihajlov's sen tence was so much less severe than the letter of the law against "spreading false information about Yugoslavia" would have allowed - and that the writ er is still free, pending the outcome of an appeal. In an earlier period, Mihajlov might never have...