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...that the economy is going through the painful transition from communism to capitalism, Czechoslovakia is learning how hard it is to shut down such an important industry. As many as 80,000 jobs, the bulk of them in the restive and depressed region of Slovakia, depend on it. The federal government has pledged to cut output to 25% of 1988 levels by 1993, but already Slovak politicians have slowed down that timetable to stave off mass unemployment. Last month federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa took a scolding from his Israeli counterpart, Yitzhak Shamir, over a still pending agreement to sell...
Havel's moral authority defused a crisis of faith in Slovakia, the country's rustic eastern wing. But his remedy -- asking for the temporary right to rule by fiat if necessary -- differed only in degree from Walesa's ideal of an almost mystically righteous ruler who, as Poland's new President put it, can take "an ax" to obstacles. And Slobodan Milosevic, the steely leader elected by Serbs, won by virtue of his frank jingoism...
Fierce flashes of nationalism threaten to tear apart Yugoslavia, while nationalists in Slovakia, one of the two partly autonomous republics that make up Czechoslovakia, are pushing hard for a referendum that would allow Slovakia to break away. Yet while they demand independence for themselves, the 5 million Slovaks, a third of Czechoslovakia's population, deny any such choice to Slovakia's 600,000 ethnic Hungarians; the more militant nationalists even insist that the Hungarians should be made to speak Slovak. To combat such trends, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at last week's CSCE meeting called for a new "economic, environmental...
...still larger number of Congressmen say they support any nation's right to self-determination. Their lofty concern apparently does not extend to Quebec, Slovakia, Palestine or other areas where minorities are seeking nationhood, perhaps because U.S. voter rolls do not include large numbers of French- Canadians, Slovaks or Palestinians. Though Lithuanian Americans have been highly vocal, they are small in number and there is no organized Lithuanian lobby in the U.S. But millions of Americans of East European ancestry nurse a long-standing and understandable grudge against Moscow...
...wants the other 50 percent divided among the Communists, itself, the Socialists and two small officially recognized parties in Slovakia, CTK reported...