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January 3rd, 2008 issue

Sausage fervor

Almost every night of the five days I was in Prague, we ate at one of the stands on the square (“City bans sausage stands,” News, Dec. 12–18).
Considering how “Americanized” I noticed it was, with McDonald’s and KFC, I was very happy to spend my money elsewhere and eat with the locals at the pubs and at these stands.
It was nice to just grab a sausage and beer and explore the city. I remember walking past the one pictured with the newspaper article and I laughed. It reminded me of the great experience that was Prague, for good or for ill. I’d hate to see them gone when I come back next time.
Robert Guenther
Los Angeles
My Uncle Vlastík used to tell me stories of how he loved to eat a hot sausage on Wenceslas Square many years ago. He hasn’t been back in decades, but he often mentioned how he would enjoy a dog at the square. So much for the tourist theory — he was a hometown guy, and an upstanding citizen.
It’s a pity governments are so concerned with appearances and not trying to solve the underlying problem of the poor, the prostitution and drug dealing. Typical!
Jiri Valla
Pittsburgh
Passport machine
How about somebody invents a machine that sends a signal when the queues at passport control get to be too long? (“Airport scanner could cut lines,” News, Nov. 28–Dec. 4)
Extra staff could be dragged in to speed things up. The last few times I’ve flown into Prague, I’ve spent 40–50 minutes to get to the luggage carousel. It took less time to fly here!
Sam Aitkin
Prague
Off the radar
The Bush administration’s proposed missile-defense system doesn’t even come up on the “radar screen” in our presidential candidate debates.
The U.S. Congress has cut $139 million from the proposed budget. Four years ago, weren’t other Czech officials responsible for assuring Americans there was a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida with a nonexistent meeting in Prague?  
Jiří Pehe had it right when he commented in the Slovak daily Sme, Oct. 26, “It has turned out Czech-U.S. relations are not special.”
For what it’s worth, I would suggest government officials should rub the sleep from their eyes and understand there is no Santa and no bogey man. Americans are no longer as naive as we were once considered by Europeans; neither are most Czechs.
We know our government is more than capable of lying and manipulating information for its own purposes. The United States is heading into a recession, and we cannot afford another arms race. The Czech Republic and Poland shouldn’t allow themselves to become pawns in another Cold War.
Paulette Will
Minneapolis


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