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KIDNAPPING The Foreigners’ Police and Organized Crime Unit staged an operation against child kidnappers at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport last week, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported Sept. 1. Police targeted passengers with children, checking their travel documents. Although there were no arrests, police have called the operation a success. 

LEGACY The Czech-American head of the Bata International shoemaking company, Tomáš Baťa Jr, died in Toronto Sept. 2 at the age of 93. Upon hearing the news of his death, President Václav Klaus called Baťa “one of the really great personalities of our present times,” ČTK reported.
RAILWAYS A year after the Prague–Holešovice train station was renamed Nádraží Franze Kafky, related officials including Prague 7 town hall and the Rail Authority know nothing about the name change, Hospodářské noviny reported Sept. 2. The renaming by Czech Railways was an attempt to attract new customers with an improved image.
PREGNANCY An increasing number of foreign women are coming to the Czech Republic to seek out artificial insemination methods that are illegal in their home countries, ČTK reported Sept. 2. The Czech Republic allows for the donation of human eggs, and women mostly from Italy, Germany and Israel are prepared to pay up to 10,000 Kč ($600) for the treatment.
ROAD TRIP Two Czech students who are taking a corporate sponsored road trip around the world in a nearly 40-year-old Škoda left Olomouc, north Moravia, Sept. 1, ČTK reported. They plan to cover 35,000 miles in Europe, Asia and the United States. They had overhauled the car themselves and named it Julinka.


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