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Topics this week: Educational project teaching children to live alongside
animals. "Tourist Police" force. Czech national anthem.
Listeners quoted: Michael Stein, Pavel Barta, Frederick Johnson.
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MailboxMailbox
Topics today: Government project for foreign workers. EU warning on safety
standards. Electricity bills. Bangladesh DX club listeners' competition.
Listeners quoted: Mustafa Hamoui, Eva Herzog, David Eldridge. Muhammad
Shamims.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The smiling face of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder features on the
front pages of all of today's dailies, as Gerhard's plane touches down in
Prague for a long-overdue visit. "Germans and Czechs are closer than
ever before," writes Chancellor Schroeder in an exclusive interview
for MLADA FRONTA DNES, his first ever for a Czech newspaper.
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Today's papers make rather depressing reading - with little else happening,
the grim road death statistics get front page coverage in Mlada Fronta Dnes. Lidove Noviny meanwhile leads with news that the investigation into
the "robbery of the century" has collapsed through lack of
forensic evidence, while Pravo claims that the Russian mafia is slowly but
surely infiltrating the Czech authorities.
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MailboxMailbox - Tribute to Olga
This week's Mailbox is dedicated to our beloved colleague Olga Szantova,
who passed away on August 8, 2003, after fighting a long and hard battle
with cancer. The Radio Prague team would like to thank all listeners and
friends for the numerous words of sympathy and condolences that were sent
to us.
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Talking PointOlga Szantova 1932-2003: Radio Prague mourns a truly exceptional colleague
On Friday night our much-loved colleague from Radio Prague, Olga Szantova,
died at the age of 71: the end of a long battle with cancer and a life
that was quite exceptional. She will be hugely missed not just by
colleagues but also by many thousands of listeners, who had grown to know
her over a radio career that spanned over 40 years. David Vaughan
remembers.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The ongoing saga surrounding the troubled Fischer travel empire dominates
the front pages today - news that brokerage firm Atlantik Financial
Markets will buy debts from one of Fischer's creditors means that Fischer
lives on to fight another day. And also making headlines this morning -
the Senate's blocking of three candidates for the Constitutional Court
proposed by President Vaclav Klaus.
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Current AffairsHavel to receive U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel has travelled to the United States to
receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George W.
Bush. Mr Havel is the first Czech ever to receive the medal, which is the
highest civilian award in the United States, and recognizes exceptional
meritorious service.
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Tuesday's newspapers don't agree on the most important story of the day in
the Czech Republic, and lead with everything from tourists left high and
dry by bankrupt travel agencies to a plan to attract workers from such
countries as Bulgaria and Kazakhstan.
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