Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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SEEKING DIVORCE. Ivana Trump, 41, former Czechoslovakian fashion model and ski competitor; from struggling real estate developer Donald Trump, 44; after 13 years of marriage, three children. Though the couple separated spectacularly nine months ago, the formal decision to file papers was announced only last week. Ivana Trump is still challenging the couple's postnuptial agreement, which limits her claim to $10 million plus their $12 million estate in Connecticut...
Dienstbier acknowledged the need to "send people abroad to learn these new things" but said Czechoslovakian journalists are much more eager to report the truth than they had been before the fall of communism...
Almost half of this brief 150-page book is dedicated to Ash's experiences in Prague, where he witnessed the formation of the opposition movement firsthand and up-close. His precise analysis of the Czechoslovakian refolution won him acclaim within opposition circles and is equally brilliant in hindsight: "In Poland it took ten years," Ash explains. "In Hungary ten months, in East Germany ten weeks: perhaps in Czechoslovakia it will take ten days...
Thomas Bata's visit to Prague last December at the invitation of the new Czechoslovakian leadership was a particularly joyful journey. At 75, he heads Toronto-based Bata Shoe, which made 300 million pairs of shoes last year. Founded in 1894 by his father in the Moravian town of Zlin, Czechoslovakia, the firm was nationalized by the Communists in 1945. The family moved to Canada and proceeded to build the world's largest shoe company...
Dienstbier has been active in Czechoslovakian politics since 1958, when he began working as a foriegn policy radio commentator...