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...year which has seen dramatic changes rock the area's political frame work, Kohl is the second major European leader invited to speak at Commencement. Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel was asked to speak earlier this year, but turned the offer down because it conflicted with the first free parliamentary elections in his country since World...
Still waiting--No word yet on whether Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president will speak at Harvard's Commencement this June. Harvard extended the formal invitation a few weeks ago, but has not yet gotten a reply. Now, it looks like they may have to wait quite a while. According to a U.S. State Department spokesperson contacted two days ago, Havel's office has been inundated with speaking offers--some 45 for May and June alone. Meanwhile, the spokesperson said, Havel's administration has not been too quick to respond to any of them. "They've been planning them 24 hours...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze marked the anniversary of the Hungarian uprising by telling Moscow's new parliament that the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan had "blatantly violated" the law. By doing so, he implied that events like the 1956 Hungarian crackdown and the 1968 Czechoslovakian invasion would not recur. In addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part...
With an estimated 90% of the Boeing 747's fragments now recovered, experts have begun reassembling the aircraft piece by piece in a warehouse south of Lockerbie. They are attempting to learn exactly how and where the bomb was placed and whether it was constructed from Semtex, a Czechoslovakian-made plastic explosive...
CAHOOT'S MACBETH also has its clever moments. Stoppard wrote the play under the direction of Czechoslovakian playwright Pavel Kohout, who experienced the decade of "normalization" following the fall of the Dubcek government in his country. During this period, the government prevented many people, including actors, from pursuing their careers. This repression provides the context for the second play...