Because it happened during the frenetic final throes of the Cold War, the 1983 abduction of 66 Czechoslovaks by Angolan rebels didn’t get much coverage on these shores. Were a similar event to occur today, though, it would receive immense attention, primarily because of the kidnappers’ rough tactics: In addition to taking children as well […]
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Honor Among Kidnappers
September 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on Honor Among Kidnappers
Tags:Angola·Cold War·Czech Republic·Jonas Savimbi·kidnapping
Monkey with the Lingo
January 3rd, 2012 · 6 Comments
Among the many bizarre books I’ve been reading for research purposes, few are stranger than Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Fire, the former Black Panther bigwig’s account of becoming a born again Christian in the late 1970s. Cleaver spends much of the book repudiating the Communist allies who once supported him, including the North Korean dictator […]
Tags:Communism·Czech Republic·dictatorships·Eldridge Cleaver·Kim Il-sung·North Korea
Thorned Bonanza
January 19th, 2010 · 9 Comments
We’re certainly all for the Czech Republic’s willingness to step up to the plate and become a laboratory for drug-policy reform. But in their haste to craft decriminalization legislation that could kick in with the New Year, Czech lawmakers appear to have done a grave disservice to a rising agricultural sector: the cactus industry: A […]
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