>Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 08:05:05 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Peter Durcansky <dudlo@poboxes.com>
>RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 1, No. 130, Part II, 2 October 1997
>
> A selection from the RFE/RL Newsline
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>KLAUS FAVORS ABOLITION OF LAW BANNING NOMADIC LIFESTYLE.
>Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus told CTK on 1. October he favors a
>Communist Party proposal to repeal a 1958 law banning people
>from leading a nomadic way of life. The law, when passed was
>aimed primarily at the country's Roma population to ensure that
>they could no longer travel about the country in caravans. He
>says this is the first time the government had unconditionally
>agreed with a proposal from the Communists. Meanwhile, a member
>of the Canadian Council for Immigration and Refugees is in the
>Czech Republic on a two week fact-finding mission on the
>situation of Roma.
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