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- <text id=90TT1069>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: World Notes:Names
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 67
- World Notes
- NAMES
- Equal Ethnic Billing
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- <body>
- <p> Legislators in Prague took a historic vote last week: by a
- landslide, they renamed their country the Czech and Slovak
- Federative Republic, removing a hyphen they had inserted only
- four weeks earlier. The new monumental mouthful was a
- concession to the country's 5 million Slovaks, who have
- resented the dominance of the 10 million Czechs ever since the
- country was formed in 1918 from the Austro-Hungarian empire's
- two western Slavonic provinces.
- </p>
- <p> The March 23 decision to name the country the Czecho-Slovak
- Federative Republic was intended to appease angry Slovaks.
- Instead, it only increased nationalist ire. In the following
- weeks thousands marched in their provincial capital of
- Bratislava, calling for Slovak independence. The new
- designation is intended to provide equal ethnic billing.
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- </body>
- </article>
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