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In this special New Year’s Day show we are taking a look back at some ofthe best of our One on One interview programme in 2006. Among thosefeatured are William Teltscher, who fled Mikulov in 1938 and recalls hisreturn to Czechoslovakia, Zdenek Marek, who defected a day after winningthe World Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden, and Pavla Fleischer, a filmmaker who experienced a bombing in Tel Aviv. Other guests includeCommunist Party member Josef Skala, opinion pollster Jan Hartl andGlasgow-based Czech academic and commentator Jan Culik. William TeltscherIt’s not often you get the chance to talk …

According to the organisation, Schwazenberg’s participation in the coalition government of the Civil Democrats (ODS), the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Green Party will not threaten the Czech national interests as Klaus fears.

The forum intends to hand over the letter published in Czech and German versions on its website www.a-cz-dialog.net to Klaus on January 8, Janyr said.

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He said that the initiative had thus reacted to Klaus’s statements made in the press this week. In his article in the daily Mlada fronta Dnes published on Thursday Klaus voiced concern that Schwarzenberg as foreign minister might not sufficiently protect the Czech Republic’s interests due to his ties with Austria.

The street value of the drug that the man attempted to smuggle from Buenos Aires, is about 7 million crowns.

This is the ninth seizure of cocaine this year. In the previous eight cases, 6.4 kilos of cocaine have been seized.

The customs officers this year also seized 12 kolos of heroin, 6.5 kolos of marijuana, 5 kilos of pervitine (methamphetamine) and almost 400 grammes of hashish.

($1=20.876 crowns)

Author: ИTK.

Norbert Auerbach moved here from Vienna at the age of two and grew up inPrague in the 1920s and 30s, the son of a very successful motion pictureproducer. Indeed, as a boy he lived at Barrandov, home of the CzechRepublic’s famous film studios. Mr Auerbach later moved to the USA, wherehe had an extremely successful career in Hollywood, including a spell aspresident of United Artists. In this special programme, Norbert Auerbach,now 84, looks back on a long and colourful life and career. Norbert AuerbachHe had a hand in such hits as the James Bond series, the Beatles firstmovie A Hard Day’s Night and …

Welcome to SoundCzech - Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which youcan learn useful phrases through song lyrics. Today’s song is by a wellknown Czech singer - Eva Pilarova and it is called “Thunder upon you,my love”. Eva PilarovaAnd yes, today’s phrase is the name of the song itself. “Hrom aby dotм lбsko vjel” which literally translates as “May thunderstrike, you my love” - or - which makes slightly more sense”Thunder upon you, my love”. It is a phrase we all want to useonce in a while - when we are not happy with a state of affairs.”Hrom do toho” - or “thunder upon this” is somethingakin …

“I am considering the possibility. However, this should not necessarily happen,” Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) chairman Jiri Cunek told CTK, adding that it was only one of several alternatives.

Initially, the Christian Democrats intended to nominate Cyril Svoboda for the post of culture minister. However, Svoboda could become minister without portfolio in Topolanek’s cabinet, the server said.

Cunek is now considering candidates for the post. The original candidate for culture minister, Simeona Zikmundova, gave up the nomination due to the media criticism.

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Iraq is coming to terms with its past and it is at least a partial satisfaction for the relatives of the victims of the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein, the statement says.

“There are still many supporters of the former Iraqi president in Iraq and it can thus be expected that in a short-term perspective the execution will provoke disturbances in the country. However, we firmly believe that from the long-term perspective, the end of the Saddam Hussein era will move Iraq closer to stability and democracy,” the ministry said.

Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at dawn today. The …

The Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and Green Party (SZ) signed yesterday a coalition agreement of ODS chairman Mirek Topolanek’s new government.

The coalition agreed on the Greens’ insistence not to build further units in the nuclear plant in Temelin, south Bohemia, that has been sharply criticised by Austrians, or elsewhere.

The coalition government is yet to be appointed by President Vaclav Klaus and ask the Chamber of Deputies for confidence. It, however, does not have a majority in the lower house.

Atomstopp had preliminary plans for blocking selected border crossings on December 31, APA writes.

Cunek said he would choose the new minister out of about 10 candidates.

Zikmundova (unaffiliated)decided to withdraw from the post after criticism in the media, and she prefers working in the Vysocina Regional Office instead.

The leaders of the election-winning ODS, the KDU-CSL and the Greens (SZ) signed a coalition agreement on Thursday. The ODS will have nine seats in the 18-member coalition cabinet, while the junior ruling parties will divide the remaining nine seats. The KDU-CSL will have five and the Greens four ministers.

Cunek will become Local Development Minister, former KDU-CSL …

Sestka - or “the Six” - is an ongoing series of exhibitions atthe Prague House of Photography, featuring work by up-and-comingphotographers from six of the country’s most important photographyschools, including AVU’s New Media Studio and Prague’s FAMU film academy.But, at the moment, the gallery is showing an installation by students andgraduates from Usti nad Labem’s University of J.E. Purkyne, in northBohemia. The opening was held shortly before the start of the holidays. The Prague House of Photography can be fairly easy to overlook, linked asit is by a passage off of the city’s busy Wenceslas …