Respekt Weekly (47/07)In this week's news summary, UFOs in the USA, cheap Czech cigarettes in Austria, and Milan Baroš in trouble in France
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Winter arrived and meteorologists announced it would stay. Norman Mailer died. Eighteen people applied for the position of director of state-owned forests. World champion javelinist Barbora Špotáková was named Czech Athlete of the Year 2007. The European Human Rights Court ordered the Czech Republic to pay compensation to the Roma children whose lives it had been mercilessly ruining for years by sending them to special schools. "The said deed is not a criminal act," declared the state prosecutor's office, explaining why it had suspended the 10-year-old criminal prosecution of financier Pavel Tykač, accused of stealing one billion crowns belonging to CS Fond shareholders. Parliament started debating a bill that would radically toughen penalties for corruption. Dog sleds raced in Votice. Cyril Svoboda of the Christian Democratic Party filled the post of regional development minister left unoccupied since the resignation of his fellow party member Jiří Čunek. Austrian tobacconists announced a strike for late November aimed at forcing their government -- in contravention of European regulations and at the risk of lawsuits from the European Commission -- to extend the import ban on Czech cigarettes, which are cheaper and will, according to the Austrian guild's representatives, "ruin tobacconists' trade in Austria within a month," into the New Year. "He's our Havel -- in him, we have the chance for Cuba to one day see a Velvet Revolution like Czechoslovakia did," declared Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a US congressman of Cuban descent, after President George Bush bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Oscar Elias Biscet, a Cuban physician who was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Cuban regime in 2003 for publicly criticizing his country's health care conditions. "I have seen here disgraces so perverse and barbaric that they cannot even be written about. But nothing will deter me, I will continue my fight," wrote the seriously ill and malnourished Biscet, in a message, quoted in the Czech press, that he recently managed to smuggle out of prison to his wife. The ski season began. The Austrian Cabinet announced that, regardless of the Czech Republic's admittance to the Schengen border-free zone, it is determined to continue guarding the Czech-Austrian border and thereby protect the Austrian public from a possible surge of refugees and criminals. Statistics showed that Czechs have surpassed Germans -- in food prices. Jaroslav Palas, the former Social Democratic agriculture minister who gave the Setuza chemical plant away to gangsters associated with recently assassinated mafia boss František Mrázek, has, at a party conference in Ostrava, been selected to head the candidate list for upcoming regional elections in Moravia-Silesia. "I am a persecuted artist. In my town of San José, Costa Rica, there are dozens of stray dogs starving to death and dying on the streets and nobody bats an eyelid -- but when you exhibit one of them, it triggers a response that shows the incredible hypocrisy in us," wrote 50-year-old Costa Rican artist Guilermo Habakuk Vargas in a statement quoted in Mladá fronta Dnes, in which he responded to a global wave of outrage over his latest work, for which he caught a stray dog and exhibited it -- tethered in a gallery and left without food until it died -- as a "dying artifact." Young wine was tasted on St. Martin's day. Closer examination showed that galaxy I Zwicky 18 is not one of the cosmos's youngest clusters, as was previously thought, but that it contains stars more than 10 billion years old. In an attempt to lure residents from their cars and onto public transport, Prague city hall decided to mark bus and tram fares up from 20 crowns to 26 crowns. The number of counterfeit car parts on the market increased. The media reported on a meeting of 19 US military pilots and politicians who called on the White House and the governments of other countries to, "after 40 years of closed eyes, start to carefully investigate the unidentified flying objects in their skies and dispel the myth that all UFO sightings can be rationally explained." "So many people drive fast, and I take the heat because I'm Baroš," pronounced Milan Baroš, Lyon football club's Czech substitute, after French police revoked his driving license and seized his Ferrari when they clocked him driving 271 kilometers per hour. Falling snow took Czech drivers by surprise again.  Translated By Martha J. Sullivan 
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