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         STUDENT'S E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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       C A R O L I N A  No 48,  Friday, November 6, 1992.

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FROM LAST WEEK'S EVENTS (October 28 - November 4)

European Community's Committee for Gabcikovo

    Gabcikovo waterworks is technically good, according to the appraisal
of the European Community's Committee. Its  experts claim that it is not
possible to  interupt the construction  work at this  time. The European
Community intends  to make a  significant contribution to  a solution of
the  problem, whose  prolonging  would  cause difficulties  with gaining
Slovakia's  international  recognition.  It  would  have  an unfavorable
influence on  the Czech attitude  towards the customs  union between the
Czech and the Slovak Republics. Czech Republic cannot continue to ignore
the Gabcikovo problem since a majority of European Community's countries
regard her as one of the involved parties in the dispute.

On Dissolution of Federation

    The  governmental  proposal  of  the  bill  of the extinguishment of
Czechoslovakia is being dealt with in the Federal Assembly.
    According  to this  bill, Czechoslovakia  will no longer exist as of
December 31,  1992 at 24.00,  when all the  state bodies, armed  forces,
armed  security   units  and  state  organizations   controlled  by  the
federation, cease to  be valid. Czech Republic and  Slovak Republic will
become succession states.
    The Czechoslovakian Socialist Democratic Party presented a proposal,
that  on December  19, a  referendum on  the possibility  of division on
December 31 be declared. If in this referendum citizens did not approve
the federation's  abolishment, a new  election would have  to be called,
according to the Social Democrats. The first reactions of the members of
parliment towards this proposal were negative.
    The Bill is to be discussed in the next session of Parliament.

Civil Democratic Party (ODS) Objects  Direct Election of Czech President

    The  executive body  of Civil  Democratic Party  denied Tuesday  for
a direct Presidential election.
    According  to  the  attitude  of  the  strongest  political party in
Czechoslovakia, a direct election of  President would bring about a rise
of a competitive center of executive power. The party said that would be
a source of strong conflicts especially if the President were impartial.
    The press  agency Arteria published  information that ODS  denounced
support for Vaclav  Havel. His rival candidate from  ODS would allegedly
be the current Federal Premier Jan Strasky. Chaiman of the party, Vaclav
Klaus,  who opposed  the direct  presidential election  as early as last
week,  said the  information that  the  ODS  did not  support Havel  was
entirely false.
    The  direct presidential  election, as  proposed by  Havel, gained
support  among  representatives  of  some  parties  of  the governmental
coalition, for  example Civil Democratic  Alliance, Christian Democratic
Union -  Czechoslovakian People's Party,  and among the  majority of the
opposition parties.  Communist Left Block prefers  an indirect election,
the Czechoslovakia  traditional   election  of  the  President  by
Parliament.

Abolishing of the University of Trnava

    According  to this  Wednesday's daily  Mlada Fronta,  on Tuesday the
Slovakian government passed a Bill of the National Council of the Slovak
Republic, abolishing the University of Trnava.

LAST COMMON OCTOBER 28

    As promised,  the following reports  offer a profile  of October 28,
the last state holiday of Czechoslovakia, as we recorded it in Prague.

Left Block Against the Division of the State

    About  one thousand mostly  older supporters  of the  Left Block
gathered on Wenceslas  Sqare on the eve of the  state holiday in Prague.
Their   demonstration  presented   a  dissent   from  the   division  of
Czechoslovakia and from the developments made after November 1989.
    "We will easily fall prey to Germany", proclaimed Miroslav Ransdort,
one of the Members of Parliment  of the Federal Assembly for Left Block.
In support of his arguments,  three other speakers from Germany, England
and Sub-Carpathian Ukraine took the  floor. Unfortunately this rally did
not  shun violence  with one  flag-bearers attacking  a journalist.  The
manifestation was completed by an evangelic minister who appealed to the
participants  to come  in support  of Wednesday's  demonstration of  the
Association for Republic - Republican Party of Czechoslovakia.

Sladek will not allow another Munich

    Association  for  Republic  -  Republican  Party  of  Czechoslovakia
(SPR-RSC) began its demonstration at noon on October 28 in Prague on the
Wenceslas Square.  Several thousand people gathered under  the statue of
Saint Wenceslas.
    "I take my  cap off to everyone who had  courage to come here," said
MP of  the Federal Assembly  for SRP-RSC Josef  Krejsa. Then he  went on
to  critisize the  current, as  well as  previous, constitutional public
servants.
    "We will  not let a new  Munich! Havel, Klaus and  Meciar sold us to
Germans!"  were the  first sentences  of Chairman  of SPR-RSC,  Miroslav
Sladek, when he  arrived at 1 p.m. "The  West is afraid of the  power of
united  Czechoslovakia. Today  we have   the best  chance to  become the
fourth world power after the USA,  Russia and China." Sladek labeled the
Civil  Democratic  Party  and  its   leader  Vaclav  Klaus,  along  with
ex-president Vaclav Havel successors to Adolf Hitler. After two hours of
persistent rain Miroslav Sladek left.
    An  opinion poll  carried out   by the  editorial staff  of Carolina
discovered that from 311 participants  of the demonstration, 147 came to
support the  claims of the  Republicans, 92 people  wanted just to  have
a look and the rest 72 aimed at critising Sladek.

Zeman was critisizing, Kryl singing

    The  afternoon  meeting  of   Czechoslovakian  Social  Democracy  in
Prague's Eden  gave a rather  sad impression. The  speakers talked about
corruption and decay  achieved by the common state  during recent times.
Most of the contribution made a  strong stand against a violent break-up
of  the  federation  and  supported  the  idea  of referendum. With wild
applause the audience awarded prognostic  and critic of Klaus's economic
reform - MP  of the federal assembly for  Czechoslovak Social Democracy,
Milos Zeman.
    "Neither  Czech or  Slovakian  advice  will luckily  influence God,"
stated by way of an introduction of his appearance Jiri Kalensky, parish
priest of Czechoslovakian Hussite Church.  Later he dealt with the newly
risen situation  in Slovakia. His  successor to the  speaker's stand was
ex-minister of the federal government, Petr Miller.
    "I am not  singing for any party, I am  singing for Republic". These
words  introduced Karel  Kryl, a  folk  singer  who had  to emigrate  to
Germany  in  1968   because  of  political  reasons.  In   the  end  the
participants signed  a petition calling for  referendum on the division
of the state.

Vaclav Havel at St. Vaclav

    Ex-president Vaclav  Havel commemorated the 74th  anniversary of the
rise  of  Czechoslovakia  by  putting  flowers  to  the  statue of Saint
Wenceslas on the Wenceslas Square in Prague at 5pm.

Anarchists at the "Funeral of the Republic"

    Anarchists and  skinheads gathered at a  rally organized by National
Fasist  Body  near  the  one-time  Stalin's  statue  in  Prague.  Around
3 p.m., a dangerously looking  procession of approximately 200 skinheads
set out  marching though the city,  but soon they were  stoped by police
forces.  Anarchists on  the contrary   held a  peaceful "Funeral  of the
Czechoslovak Republic".

Republic in Theatre

    The audience  in Theatre Labyrint also  commemorated the anniversary
of the rise of the common  state. During the fourth series of discussion
program  RES PUBLICA  there was  a set  of politicians,  journalists and
actors on the  stage. A live discussion rised between  the stage and the
auditorium. The  major topics were  the Republicans' demonstration,  the
University of Trnava and Czech-Slovak relations.
    "We  support  unreservedly  your  pains  to  create  a  new  and good
university in Trnava," stated a  telegram for students and pedagogues of
this school written by the  participant to this discussion, who included
ex-premiers  Petr Pithart  and  Jan  Carnogursky and  essay-writer Pavel
Tigrid.

Present State of Health of Alexander Dubcek

    According to the  Minister of Health Service of  the Czech Republic,
Petr  Lom, the  patient's crisis  deepens, but  the basic  functions are
still preserved.

Opinion Poll

    The extinguishment of the federation is favored by 51 percent Czechs
and 37 percent  Slovaks. These are the October's  results of the opinion
poll carried out by the Institute for Public Opinion Poll.
    The most acceptable way of deviding  the state in both the republics
still remains as  referendum. One third of Slovaks and  more than a half
of Czechs want a new election  after the collapse of the federation. (In
Bohemia,  half of  those who  voted the  current governmental  coalition
shares this opinion.)
    In case  of a division, more  than 50 per cent  of citizens would be
afraid of a division of property, finance and even of a contingent civil
war.

Czechoslovakia crown's bill of rate

                   buy        purchase
USA      1 USD     27.71      29.11
BRD      1 DEM     17.60      18.52
GB       1 GBP     41.90      45.04
FRA      1 FRF      5.14       5.46
AUT      1 ATS      2.52       2.64

The rate is valid on November 4.

CULTURAL SERVICE

Master of Czech Painting

    A collection of paintings,  puppets and wooden ornamental sculptures
of Czech artist  Jiri Trnka is on display in  the National Galley in the
Kinskych Palace  through January 24. Apart  from popular figures (Svejk,
Beatles) the  exhibition also includes a  projection of Trnka's animated
cartoons.

Scandalous Gio

    The first run of a debut  of authors and directors, Simon and Michal
Caban, "Don  Gio" took place on  OCtober 31 in the  Stavovske Theatre in
Prague at the occasion of closing  the festival "Mozart Open 1992". This
non-commercial film  aimed at expressing  an entire respect  to Mozart's
music which penetrated the film during the whole performance.

SPORT

Hockey  -  After  16  finished  rounds  of  the  federal  hockey league,
north-bohemian Litvinov is still in the lead with 22 points. In the last
5 matches it  gained but 5  points which makes  Ceske Budejovice ranking
second, loses now only 1 point. The  last is still Pardubice who has won
so far only 4 matches.

Football -  In the fourth  round of the  Cup of Czech-Moravian  Football
Association,  two   first-league  teams  were   surprisingly  beaten  by
third-league teams: Dukla Praha lost  to Frydek-Mistek 0:2, Teplice beat
Vitkovice  1:0.  A  first-league  novice  from  Brno gained mastery over
Olomouc  2:0  and  in  the  next  match  of  two  teams  of  the highest
competition, Ceske Budejovice (so far  not succesful in the league) beat
Banik Ostrava 3:2. Slavia Praha  gained mastery over third-league Blsany
as late  as after a penalty  shot. Among those advancing  there are also
Sparta Praha and second-league teams Viktorie Zizkov and Opava.
    The cup finalists in Slovakia are Dunajska Streda and 1.FC Kosice.
    All the  three leading teams of  the league - competition  remain on
the top of  the chart : Slovan Bratislava beat  Trnava 2:1, DAC Dunajska
Streda - Presov 1:0, Brno - Ostrava 3:2.

WEATHER

    The approaching winter will shorten days and prolong nights. The sun
rises before 7 a.m. and sets already  around 4:30 p.m. The sky is cloudy
with occasional rains or fog. Temperatures fluctuate narrowly below zero
in the night and around 10 degrees (centigrade) in the day.


 DECLARATION OF THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TRNAVA


    We, the students of the University  of Trnava residing in Trnava, do
resent  more  and  more  sharpening  dispute  between  the  Ministry  of
Education and Science  of the Slovak Republic and  the management of the
University of Trnava. What we perceive is that under the veil of various
invectives  there  is  a  political  combat  taking  place, which is not
admissible on the academic ground  according to the law. The development
of  recent events  heads even  towards abolishment  of the University of
Trnava. Under these  circumstances we cannot stay silent  any longer and
thus we appeal to public with this declaration:

    The University of  Trnava was established by an  Act of the National
Council of the  Slovak Republic number 191/92 on March  25, 1992. At the
same time  the National Council of  the Slovak Republic with  its decree
nb. 278 established a commission for creating a Preparatory Committee as
a guarantee  of the  quality of  the  new  university. On  May 15,  1992
President of  Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel appointed,  in response to the
commission of teh  National Council of the Slovak  Republic, RNDr. Anton
Hajduk, DrSc. a rector of the University of Trnava. In the first half of
September  admission process  started at  the university.  As soon as at
this time started to gain its sad popularity due to an argument over the
personality  of the  rector and   thus over  the whole  University. This
crisis peaked at the matriculation to the university.
     We don't  want to deal  with individual aspects  of the whole  case
since we  are here to prepare  for our future professions  in a peaceful
and calm atmosphere. On this occasion, we  would like to thank to all of
the professional staff of the University of Trnava (UT) for their hither
to work, without any financial  compensation. But the blocked account
of the university does not guarantee us a required quality of education.
Why do  we, as regular students,  (within the assignment _  18 paragraph
4,  act number  172/1992 on  universities) have  to be  involved in  the
action of the Ministry of Education? What are we to blame for?
    In connection with the case of UT representatives of the Ministry of
Education start talking  about the groundlessness of a  "country" UT. We
would like to remind that almost no university in the Central Europe has
such  history  as   UT.  It  was  her  who   educated  many  signifigant
personalities of not only of the  Slovak nation. The signifigance of the
university  was fully  appreciated after  its moving  to Budin, in 1777.
Then it was already late.
     After 215 years,  our university proudly clams to  be a sucessor to
this  school and  it has  a full  historical right  to do  so. The  then
students allowed their  school to be taken from them,  we will not allow
it  anymore. If  we want  to re-enter  the mature  democratic Europe, we
can't  do so  without educated  people. And  we want  to rank among them
after completing our studies at UT. Woe  is a nation which does not look
ahead.
     We  apppreciated the  attitude of  the city  of Trnava  which tries
within the  framework of its  possiblities to create  conditions for the
activity of UT.  We also like to thank the  union of university students
of Slovakia for  its solidarity. These approaches encourage  us and give
us hope that in our fight for the preservation of UT, we are not alone.
     We demand the  management of UT to present  even further a maximum
effort to  preserve UT. We request  the Ministry of Education  to uplift
over  some  reservations  against  UT  and  to  contribute  to  a fluent
educational process.
     We  are convinced  that it  is in  the interest  of the  democratic
Slovakia to  settle this absurd  situation in a  peaceful way as  soon as
possible. We appeal  to the Minstry to make a  positive step which means
unblocking the bank  account of UT in VUB Trnava.  This will be a signal
for us that  the whole case of UT  will be solved in the  benefit of us,
the students of UT.
     The estate of Alma Mater in Trnava is sacred for us and we will not
disgrace it. We  will not leave UT. We, the  students of UT, residing in
Trnava, do not want to be ashamed before history.

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