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More troublesome, the Czech President is elected by members of parliament. MILOS ZEMAN, head of the Social Democrats, and VACLAV KLAUS, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that...
...More troublesome, the Czech president is elected by members of parliament. Milos Zeman, head of the Social Democrats, and Vaclav Klaus, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that...
...enough to rough up Ecoglasnost, which has just 101 members, Bulgarians have no modern model for revolt. That, ironically, might make gradual change easier. Czechoslovakia has such a model -- 1968's Prague Spring -- and authorities there are taking no chances. Two weeks ago, they arrested Jiri Ruml and Rudolf Zeman, well-known editors of the underground opposition newspaper Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding playwright Vaclav Havel, spokesman...
...Karel Zeman and Children (Czchoslovakia, 1981)--by Karel Zeman...
Baron Munchausen (Czechoslovakia, 1961)--by Karel Zeman on Friday at 9 p.m., 7 p.m. on Saturday...