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...purpose as far as Europe was concerned. Those days are long gone. This week the leaders of the 19 North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries gather in Prague to embark on what's meant to be the alliance's most ambitious enlargement yet: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - all armed with more will than power - are expected to get invitations to join. But with more terrorist attacks and a war against Iraq on the horizon, the top priority for NATO isn't enlargement, but transformation: in the post-Sept. 11 world, what exactly is NATO for? Last...
...panel of ambassadors from Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic said that European solidarity will help to quash unemployment, economic weaknesses and corruption in their respective nations...
Slovak ambassador to the U.S. Martin Bútora said that economic development within the E.U. will assuage his country’s rampant unemployment problem. Unemployment in some eastern regions of Slovakia has reached almost 40 percent, according to Cooney...
...good reason. Though his parents emigrated from the area in the early 1900s, Pittsburgh-born Warhol never visited Slovakia, much less Medzilaborce, a remote town of 6,500. But that has not stopped the locals, few of whom had ever heard of Warhol or Pop art before 1989, from adopting him as one of their own. "If you want to know Andy Warhol the superstar, go to Pittsburgh," says Michal Bycko, the museum's curator. "But if you want to know him as a person and what he was like before he became famous, you need to come to Medzilaborce...
Julia kept in close touch with her relatives in Slovakia, particularly with sister Eva Bezekova, who visited her in New York in 1967. But when Bezekova returned from her U.S. trip, all the relatives heard was her lambasting America and Warhol's lifestyle. "They build tall houses there, all the way to heaven ... God will punish them for it," she told Bycko in 1987. "Andy is strange. He is never quiet. He is always doing something, telephoning, carrying around a box out of which a human voice speaks. Satan's work...