CCCCC AA RRRRR OOOO LL II NN N AA CC AA A RR R OO O LL II NNN N AA A CC AA A RRRRR OO O LL II NN N N AA A CC AAAAAA RR R OO O LL II NN NN AAAAAA CCCCC AA A RR R OOOO LLLLLL II NN N AA A STUDENTS' E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECH REPUBLIC School of Social Sciences of Charles University Smetanovo nabr. 6 110 01 Prague 1 Czech Republic E-mail address: carolina@n.fsv.cuni.cs Fax: (+422) 231 7391 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* C A R O L I N A No 67, Friday, March 19, 1993. FROM LAST WEEK'S EVENTS (March 10-17) Central Europe will not solve migration consistently "States endangered with the migration wave mainly from East and South Europe cannot prevent it with only repressive measures. Illegal migration is above all a political problem and its extent is so big that is disintegrates the situation in Europe," Josef Zieleniec, Minister of Foreign Affaires of the Czech Republic, said at a conference of representatives of ministries of the interior of states in Central Europe. At Tuesday's conference in Prague representatives of six countries participated: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Slovinia. According to Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Jan Ruml it was not easy to find a common language for the participants." Each of us has different neighbours, different inner and economic problems, " Ruml said. Therefore during the negotiations the participants decided not to make a multilateral agreement. More likely bilateral contracts could be signed."Next steps will probably aim at negotiations on bilateral levels," said J. Ruml. At the end of the conference the representatives of individual countries signed a common proclamation saying : 1.participating states will not take over responsibility for foreigners who had entered the asylum procedure before the change of the asylum act in Germany was carried out, 2. participating states will consider the possibility of foreigners going home through their territory under exactly stated conditions, 3. ministers of the interior will strive in their countries to add to mutual standardized treaties and develop an initiative in making these treaties with countries from which illegal migrants come. Prague's conference reflected the necessity to react to the new act in Germany which was simultaneously being talked about in German parliament. Government agreed to the construction of two blocks of nuclear power plant Czech government agreed with final work on two blocks of nuclear power plant Temelin and with its activation in 1996-97.Premier Vaclav Klaus said that after Wednesday's (March 10) decision of the government. Aside from Minister of the Environment, Frantisek Benda who abstained, all the members of the government were for the final construction. On illegality of the communist regime "ODS prepared a bill on the illegality of the communist regime and resistance against it," said chairman of this party, Vaclav Klaus at this weekend's talk of the executive council of ODS. The bill should be based on naming and condemning the real state which was in Czechoslovaki during the last forty years. The act should stop the statute of limitation of all crimes not prosecuted for political reasons since 1948 till 1989, and should also solve the so-called remaining crime. ODS wants to get the bill through till June 30, 1993. ODS will not vote for a bill of restitution of church property but will be for mildening some property injuries commited in the communist era. Protests against racism without incidents A demonstration against facism and racism took place on Saturday, March 13 in the area of Strahov dormitory in Prague. About 700 people expressed their disapproval with growing racial trends in our society, increasing unemployment and bad housing policy. The demonstration was held by Youth Campaign against Racism and Facism, Gipsy Petition Committee, and Anarchist Federation. There were also young people from Germany (Unity of Revolutionary Youth from Munich) and Great Britain there. The demonstration was followed by a march through Prague culminating at the Children aisle with an anti-racist rock concert. An expected encounter with members of Skinheads movement did not occur because the policemen dashed all attempts of skinheads to get near to the demonstrators. Increase in flu cases Number of cases of acute respiratory sickness on the territory of the Czech Republic has increased by nine percent. The press presents 201 774 ill people. According to the main hygienist of the Czech Republic, MUDr. Jaroslav Kriz there are big differences among various regions. The most - by 33 per cent,the number of sick people rose in the west, the most it dropped - by 24 per cent, in Nothern Moravia. The biggest morbidity is in South Moravia where 2995 patients come to 100 000 inhabitants. Surprisingly the lowest number is announced in Prague with 1557 sick to 100 000 citizens. Czech music prizes - Gramy 1992 were awarded on Saturday in Prague's ABC theatre. The first prize was given to Les Miserables musical (staged last year in ABC theatre). The best singer was Lucie Bila, her record Missariel became the album of the year, a clip to this song (by Filip Renc) won among video-clips. In the category of groups the best was Shalom, the jazz master is contrabassist Jiri Mraz, country master Robert Krestan. The gramophone firm of the year became Monitor. All together 15 prizes were awarded. FROM SLOVAKIA Milan Knazko is knocked out? Inner dispute of Slovakian premier Vladimir Meciar and Minister of Foreign Affaires of the Slovak Republic, Milan Knazko culminated on Saturday's session of the board of Movement for Democratic Slovakia (MDS) in Lucenec. The board backed premier, as expected. They agreed that Knazko had violated the moratorium in publishing inner problems of the party, and that his ministry works not only against the interests of Slovakia, but against MDS itself. The board also expressed its accord with Meciar's proposal of the minister's removal which he had presented to prezident Michal Kovac a few days ago. Prezident will say his final statement by Friday, March 19. The minister of Foreign Affaires who is also vice-chairman of government of the Slovak Republic and vice-chairman of MDS denies all accusations. He emphasizes that the dispute with the premier is not factual but personal: the quality of minister's work is not involved at all. He does not intend to resign. He is still waiting for concrete objections which the premier has against his work. He also points out the rough way he was forbidden to take part in foreign trips. Milan Knazko admitted that he had made a mistake by supporting just Vladimir Meciar to the post of premier two years ago. "I would not do that again," he said. The case of monitoring the US consulate in Bratislava is closed Cabel from 15 microphones installed in mid-80s were cut at least in 1990 and their terminals were bricked up. Slovakian side did not find anything what would prove the microphones being used after 1989, says the announcement of the main martial prosecutor of the Slovak Republic, T. Kostal. The criminal prosecution of an unknown offender was ceased. The bugging device was discovered by the consulate employees in November 1992. According to Americans the microphones were active at that time. The then Minister of the Interior, P. Cernak appointed a commission which was assigned to present a report of the investigation by the end of 1992. Still the report was not made. After the separation of Czechoslovakia the case went over the jurisdiction of Slovakian authorities. Closer information in Carolina 53. Slovakia already has Minister of Defence Prezident Michal Kovac appointed on Tuesday, March 16 Imrich Andrejcak the first minister of defence of the Slovak Republic. Objections against his appointment came from governmental Slovak National Party which pointed out the communist past of this professional soldier. Imrich Andrejcak was the last Czechoslovak Minister of Defence. EXCHANGE RATE OF CZECH CROWN buy sell GB 1GBP 40.22 43.42 BRD 1DEM 17.07 17.99 USA 1USD 28.53 29.93 CAN 1CAD 22.65 24.25 FRA 1FRF 4.96 5.36 AUT 1ATS 2.43 2.55 TOURIST RATE OF SLOVAK CROWN (for 100 Ks) buy sell Czech Savings Bank 89.00 95.00 Commercial Bank 83.30 86.70 Agrobank 92.00 97.00 Bank of Investments 84.00 89.00 The rates as of March 16, 1993. SPORT Hockey league Vitkovice beat Kladno in the decisive fifth quarter-final match 9:1. In the semi-final they won twice in Litvinov 6:2 and 7:2. In the second duel Sparta Praha beat Trencin 9:3 and 4:3. They play on three victories, therefore the final teams will be decided in the next round. Football league In the 19th round leading Sparta Praha (26 points) beat Bohemians Praha (12) 4:1. Slavia Praha (25) beat Dukla 6:0 and thus maintained second in the charter. The third is Dac Dunajska Streda (25) who beat Olomouc 1:0. Fourth Slovan Bratislava (24) beat Brno 1:0 but his fans hissed him for a bad performance. The last is Dukla Praha instead of Trnava. WEATHER Finally we have spring. Night temperatures fluctuate around zero but during the day they climb up to 8-14 degrees. Winter clothes are disappearing in our wardrobes, afternoon sunshine tempt us to go for a walk. In places last week covered with snow there are snowdrops now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This news may be published only with "CAROLINA" designation. The subscription is free. Comments and remarks are appreciated. Send them please to the address: carolina@n.fsv.cuni.cs To subscribe to CAROLINA you send an e-mail message to the address LISTSERV@CSEARN.BITNET. The text of the message is: SUBSCRIBE CAR-ENG First name Last name for the English version or SUBSCRIBE CAR-CS First name Last name for the Czech version. To delete your subscription from the list you send the following message to LISTSERV@CSEARN.BITNET: SIGNOFF CAR-ENG or SIGNOFF CAR-CS