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DIED. Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak poet and winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature, whose lyric verse celebrating everyday life and the love of women was warmly admired in his homeland but little known elsewhere; in Prague...
...prison terms of between five and 20 years. Prosecutors said the murder was masterminded by former Minister Alain Van der Biest, who committed suicide in 2002. Case Closed CZECH REPUBLIC Fifty-six years after his fatal fall from a window, police concluded that Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk's death in 1948 was murder, not suicide as was ruled initially. WMD Found? IRAQ Danish troops operating in the south announced they had discovered dozens of buried mortar rounds that initial tests showed could contain blister gas. Results of final tests on the shells, which had been buried for at least...
That symbolism still means a lot in Central Europe. Although the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans was approved by the Allied Powers at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, a legal basis for the expulsions was charted by a series of decrees issued by Czechoslovak President Edvard Benes. dealing with such things as loss of citizenship and expropriation of property, and those decrees remain on the books to this...
...says De Salvo: "You see one nose and then you see this very refined, curt nose that has a kind of anonymous quality. He uses one image as a metaphor for an entire culture." Warhol had his own conk altered a few years earlier on his journey from a Czechoslovak immigrant background in Pittsburgh to fashionable circles in New York...
...leading banks was distributed to citizens through vouchers. That approach produced a deadly cocktail of limited accountability and poor lending practices. The recent spate of bank sell-offs promises to minimize new losses. "This is the end of crony capitalism," says Pavel Kavanek, CEO of the recently privatized Czechoslovak Commercial Bank (CSOB). "The name of the game now is impartial lending." A majority stake in CSOB was sold to Belgium's KBC Bank in mid-1999 for roughly $1 billion. Last February the government approved the sale of a 52% stake in CS, the bank Mladek originally intended to hold...