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August 29th, 2007 | Current Issue

Remnants of resistance
Institute reveals posters salvaged by mystery collector in 1968

Dissident recalls impact of 1968

Mayors' group combats radar
Association denounces talks on proposed base with state official

Reform politics, provisions blasted
Infighting, lack of exchange create 'sharp divide' in society

Politicians fought a hard battle for a soft reform
Law will update taxes and benefits, but analysts say lack of vision hurts package

City strives to keep residents from leaving
Landlord disputes, lure of houses pose threat

Bridge gets 1 billion Kč overhaul
Reconstruction shores up Charles Bridge for another 50 to 100 years

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GREECE An inferno that has devastated parts of Greece reached the outskirts of Athens Aug. 26, the International Herald Tribune reported. The fire also threatened the ancient ruins of Olympia on the Peloponnese, where the Olympic Games were first held. The fire has killed more than 60 people since Aug. 24.

RUSSIA Russian police arrested 10 people Aug. 27 for the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, according to the BBC. The suspects include a secret service officer and the leader of a Chechen organized crime gang. Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot outside her Moscow apartment block last October.
UK The European Union lifted an export ban Aug. 24 imposed on British livestock, meat and dairy products after veterinary experts found outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease on two farms in Surrey. The ban will continue within a 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) surveillance zone where the disease was found, according to the BBC.
ROMANIA Floods caused by heavy rains left a 19-year-old man dead Aug. 24 and more than 1,400 people stranded in the north Romanian villages of Moldovita and Vatra Moldovita, the Associated Press reported. Authorities warn that the flood, which has affected six of Romania’s 41 counties, could spread to seven neighboring counties.
FRANCE President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed to world powers to rein in Iran’s nuclear program as the only alternative to open conflict Aug. 27, Reuters reported. In the first major foreign policy speech since his election, Sarkozy also emphasized his opposition to Turkish membership in the EU and pushed for the formation of a Mediterranean Union.

TEMELÍN The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that the Temelín nuclear power plant is safe, according to an Aug. 27 article in the Austrian newspaper Profil. Director Mohamed El Baradei, who lives in Vienna, said he does not have “the slightest fears” about the plant that is a source of tension between Austria and the Czech Republic.

EURO Government officials withdrew a proposal to fix 2012 as the date the country will switch its currency to the euro, the Euro weekly reports. A strategy released Aug. 27 cites poor public finances and an inflexible economy as the reason for the delay. No date has been set. The country had originally planned to adopt the euro in 2010 but couldn’t due to similar problems.
CORRUPTION Police accused five more people associated with the Defense Ministry of corruption in placing public orders, according to an Aug. 28 ČTK report. Ten people, including businessmen and ministry employees, are being prosecuted in the case. Police say the group was involved in criminal activities involving half a billion crowns in manipulated tenders.
 
DETAINED Iran wants to detain a Prague-based reporter indefinitely, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Aug. 27. Parnaz Azima, a RFE/RL reporter who has both Iranian and U.S. citizenship, went to Tehran in February to visit her sick mother. Iranian officials confiscated her passport and told her she would be charged with spreading publicity against Iran, according to the Czech News Agency.
TROOPS More Czech troops will be headed to Afghanistan, Czech Chief of Staff Vlastimil Picek told Czech Television Aug. 26. About 70 soldiers will join the 225 already stationed there as the Czechs prepare to lead the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Loghar, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Kabul. Parliament has yet to approve the plan.

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