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...what she felt during her Sept. 23 shift was no smoker's cough. "I felt as if my air tube was about to stick together," she says. "I kept trying to clear my throat." When she saw her colleagues were also choking, she called the police. Last week, the Slovak Interior Ministry confirmed that Zvástová's post office had been attacked by a mixture of chloropicrin and phosgene, two chemicals used during World War I as choking agents. A second attack occurred at a bank in the same building four days later. In neither case...
...envy, its advanced technology and its leading position as an exporter," Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said in May. "Once we get closer to such a level it will be easier to discuss." Others suggest Germany should follow the East's lead. Branislav Durajka, tax chief of the Slovak Finance Ministry, says that since the flat tax was implemented, higher receipts from consumption and value-added tax have more than made up for a slight shortfall in personal income tax. "We could give some advice to [Germany and France]," he says. "The lowering of tax to around 20% doesn...
...rumor got started in the Baltic states last month, then swept across all of Central and Eastern Europe. Alzbeta Santúrová, a retiree who lives in the south Slovak village of Bajc, heard one version of it last week: the price of sugar was about to skyrocket from the current 98? per kilo to around $1.34. So Santúrová is stocking up; she is buying 50 kg. "I am afraid," says Santúrová, 65, who lives on a $170-a-month pension. "I need at least 60 kg of sugar to make wine every...
...yellow and gray, Danubiana was built to resemble a Roman galley about to sail into the serene expanse of the Danube. Since it opened in 2000 and Yellow House closed, the museum has hosted some 30 shows featuring artists like Spanish sculptor Mart?n Chirino, Dutch painter Ad Snijders and Slovak painter Peter Poll?g. Coming up are "True Colors," the work of 68 U.S. artists responding to Sept. 11 (April 6 to May 23), and a retrospective of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (May 25 to June 17). Although no longer obsessed with Van Gogh, Polakovic honors the artist's legacy...
...Slovakia's public hospitals since the 1989 fall of communism. The allegations are contained in Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom, a report published last week by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a New York-based legal advocacy organization. Though the Slovak government pledged to investigate, a spokesman for Pál Csáky, the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for minority rights, dismissed the findings, saying that similar claims had surfaced in the past and none had proved true. Forced sterilization of the Roma, once known as Gypsies, dates back...