Word: czechoslovakian
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...cars on the road are chauffeur-driven, and Poland has 27,000 chauffeurs for its officials. All of the thousand or so cars with curtained windows that bump along Albania's dusty roads are government-owned, usually contain bureaucrats and their drivers. Even the tiny Czechoslovakian veterinary service has somehow managed to acquire 900 chauffeured cars. As a sop to socialist equality, the bureaucrat often rides in the front seat beside his driver, who is nonetheless expected to hop out and open the door for him. Throughout the East bloc, the chauffeurs drive the boss's children home...
...Ivan Klima, 36, and Critic Antonin J. Liehm for "attitudes incompatible with party membership," 2) purged Novelist Jan Procházka, 38, of his alternate membership on the Central Committee for "mistakes in his literary activities," and 3) placed Literární Noviny, the weekly journal of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union, under the Ministry of Culture for "becoming the platform for political views opposite to the Czech Communist Party...
...well. In one of his harshest speeches in years, President Antonin Novotny recently warned that the party would not tolerate "the spread of liberalism, pacifism, recklessness and frivolity." Toughening Up. Last week Novotny's regime moved to take away some of the prerogatives that it had granted Czechoslovakian industries earlier this year. By giving factory managers the power to reinvest their profits-rather than having the government do it-and by allowing prices for wholesale goods to rise, the regime had hoped to encourage more efficient investment and make the economy more responsive to consumer demand. But prices soared...
...30th anniversary of his death; to the Communists, Masaryk had previously been an unperson. The party has been far less gracious toward writers like Ladisla Mňaċko, author of the novel The Taste of Power. It took away Mňaċko's Czechoslovakian citizenship when he dared to go to Israel in protest against the government's pro-Arab policy in the recent Middle Eastern...
...members of the audience see the movie as it flickers on a floor screen; at others, they watch it reflected in a mirrored-glass prism. They wind up in a near-psychedelic setting in which films are projected onto five different screens simultaneously. Another sure crowd pleaser is the Czechoslovakian Kino-automat, at which spectators themselves direct the film (see color opposite...