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- <text id=91TT0393>
- <title>
- Feb. 25, 1991: World Notes:Czechoslovakia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 25, 1991 Beginning Of The End
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- Divorce, Czech-Style
- </hdr><body>
- <p> A smiling face, symbol of Czechoslovakia's Civic Forum, may
- be turning to a frown. Beset by internal wrangling over policy
- in the newly emancipated nation, the popular alliance that
- swept the communists out of power 15 months ago and installed
- dissident playwright Vaclav Havel as President is splitting
- into two factions, already represented in Parliament: the
- conservative Club of the Democratic Right (CDR) and the Liberal
- Club.
- </p>
- <p> The move was initiated by Finance Minister and C.D.R. mentor
- Vaclav Klaus, who is overseeing the transition from a state-run
- economy to the free market. In October the outspoken Klaus won
- an upset victory as Forum chairman over Havel's chosen
- candidate. Many members of the loosely aligned Liberal Club are
- longtime associates of Havel's and opposed Klaus in that vote.
- "We have decided on a divorce, Czech-style," Klaus said,
- "between a majority that elected me [chairman] and a minority
- view."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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