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BELIEVERS IN A UNIFIED CZECHOSLOVAKIA MAY NOW regret that Vaclav Havel's 1989 "velvet revolution" wasn't the "Velcro revolution" instead. Parliamentary elections have revealed deepening differences between Czechs and Slovaks, thus increasing the chances that the 74-year-old federation will become unstitched like the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Last week, after the autonomy-seeking Movement for a Democratic Slovakia topped the polling in the Slovak republic, the group's leader, Vladimir Meciar, pressed his demand for a total rearrangement of Czech-Slovak relations...
Klaus' Civic Democratic Party is favored to win parliamentary elections this June, enabling him to continue the free-market drive. But the pain of transition has been felt most deeply in Slovakia, which is highly dependent on state-owned heavy industry. That has intensified Slovak demands for more autonomy or even independence. The government might be able to continue shock treatment only at the price of splitting the country...
...second rate. After being relegated by the Canadians to an alternate berth for the world championships in 1985, the Duchesnays accepted an offer to compete for France, then moved to the German town of Oberstdorf to train with Martin Skotnicky. Despite their mixed ancestry -- plus a German home, a Slovak coach and an English choreographer -- their loyalties are undivided. "If it were not for the French," says Isabelle, "we would not be here today...
Czech and Slovak Ministers of Privatizationhave already put a 10-day moratorium on couponsales in an effort to prevent speculators fromfurther depleting coupon stores, according toJezek...
...Slovak leaders universally acknowledge the need to decrease their economy's dependence on military production. But many think the federal government is moving too fast and is sacrificing Slovak jobs without providing credible alternatives. "The federal government understood conversion as a gesture of cooperation toward the West," says Vladimir Meciar, the combative former Slovak Prime Minister who railed against federal policy and flirted with separatism until his ouster in late April. "They hoped there'd be a payoff, but they're still waiting." Unemployed factory workers, though, may become restless waiting for new jobs...