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WitnessAlistair Beattie and the wrong kind of Skoda
In 1967 the young Scottish music student, Alistair Beattie, won a British
Council scholarship to spend two years studying at the Academy of Musical
Arts in Prague. It proved quite an adventure, as he lived through all the
hopes of the Prague Spring and the bitter disappointment that followed the
Soviet-led invasion. Alistair Beattie was recently in Prague again,
playing the viola in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. While he was
here he told Radio Prague about his very first experience of
Czechoslovakia thirty-six years ago.
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Press ReviewPress Review
Among the stories making the front pages in the Czech dailies today are the
funeral of the much-respected Pavel Tigrid, the unveiling of the new Skoda
car, the Roomster, and the football fever which has gripped the country
ahead of Wednesday night's big game against the Netherlands.
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Press ReviewPress Review
A variety of stories make the Czech dailies today including everything from
Tomas Klvana's decision to leave his post as presidential spokesman to US
President George Bush's alleged disinterest in meeting Czech President
Vaclav Klaus. Featured in cover photos are a troubled Tony Blair -
fighting for his political future in Mlada Fronta Dnes, and the very last
Volkswagen Beetle - number 21, 529, 464. It rolls out in Lidove Noviny.
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The front pages of the Czech dailies today offer a mixed bag of photos and
reports. Lidove Noviny takes a religious note on its page one: it has a
large photo of Pope John Paul II, who is currently in Croatia on his one
hundredth foreign trip. But where Lidove Noviny goes for religion, Pravo
follows with pop culture - and a picture of the Czech Republic's current
Miss Universe Katerina Smrzova, who came seventh in the Miss Universe
Contest held in Panama on Monday.
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Current AffairsSkoda Auto records drop in car sales worldwide
In the last decade or so, the Czech Republic's largest car manufacturer,
Skoda Auto, has managed to make quite a name for itself on the
international scene. As part of the Volkswagen group since 1991, it's
sales have boomed both at home and abroad - until last year, that is.
Estimates have shown that the company's overall international sales
dropped in 2002 by a little under four percent. However, the loss was at
ten percent in the Czech Republic.
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Business NewsFuture of Czech car maker Skoda uncertain as Volkswagen Group reconsiders global strategy
Employees of Czech car maker Skoda staged a protest demonstration outside
the factory in Mlada Boleslav last Friday for fears of lay-offs due to
reported changes in the global strategy of the Volkswagen group to which
Skoda has belonged since 1991. The chairman of Skoda's Trade Unions
Jaroslav Povsik talks about mounting uncertainty and fears among the
employees of the Czech flagship exporter but he remains optimistic about
the future, even if Skoda's product range is reduced to one small model.
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