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 APRIL 6, 1999 |
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] In our news bulletin you heard the latest information on the Czech Republic's efforts to help the Kosovo refugees. Olga Szantova asked government spokesman Libor Roucek about the general principles followed by the Czech Republic in this respect. Communist MPs to Yugoslavia A group of four Communist deputies left Prague on Monday to fly to Yugoslavia for a four-day visit. They are Chairman of the communist deputies in parliament, Vojtech Filip, and deputies Vaclav Exner, Karel Vymetal and Dalibor Matulka. But their trip was not met with a positive response from MP's from other parties. For instance shadow foreign minister from the Civic democratic party, Jan Zahradil, is convinced that such a mission cannot produce any positive results. The Communist party of Bohemia and Moravia is quite outspoken in its negative stand towards NATO air strikes in Yugoslavia, and so Alena Skodova asked the party's deputy chairman , Miloslav Randsdorf, what the main purpose of the communist deputies' visit to the region is? New Heroin in the Czech Republic A new type of heroin of white colour and unusually high concentration is being spread in the Czech Republic. It seems to be very dangerous, as Alena Skodova reports: According to the Police presidium spokeswoman, Ivana Moosova, 10 drug addicts died in Prague alone since the beginning of the year, which is a relatively high number. Moosova did not exclude the possibility that the new type of heroin can be blamed for this. I spoke with dr. Jiri Presl from the Drop-in drug prevention centre in Prague and asked him what the difference between the traditional and the new heroin is?Child Aggressiveness And now on a not too optimistic note, I'm afraid. Olga Szantova has been following information about the increase in child aggessivness in various parts of the country. No, it's not a rosy picture, and experts are busy discussing the reasons for the rise in aggressiveness among children. As in other parts of the world, TV and various computer games are blamed, the lack of time parents seem to have for their children, etc. But whatever the reasons, the results are terrifying. I have here some recent information from North Moravia, from the region of Ostrava and could quote a number of instances. There was the case of the boy in the 6th grade at one of the schools, who was knocked unconscious by a single blow from his classmate. Their teacher says she has been teaching thirty years, and even though boys have always fought, never before did their fights end at the doctor's. And not only that, there have been cases, not too many of them, but still, where a pupil has even turned against his teacher, in the last case in Ostrava, because he didn't like the way the teacher was telling him to behave. The situation is reaching such a degree that the cabinet has decided it has to deal with the matter in a more complex way. The department for the prevention of criminality at the interior ministry is preparing proposals for the necessary steps. Yes, the ministry of the interior is taking over, because the education ministry is running out of effective measures within its competence. For example a bad mark for behaviour on one's report card used to be a threat in the good old days, nowadays, among some, it's something to be proud of. One of the measures under consideration is creating a special Center for Early Intervention in Children with Behavioural Disorders. The first center is to get a trial run in Ostrava and if it works, more are to be opened in other parts of the country. Experts warn that just as there is no single cause for the unwelcome phenomena of increasing child aggressivity, there is no single solution and no two cases are alike. But one aspect of the situation is obvious. People are generally nervous, irritable, they have little time for each other and for other people's problems. And until all that changes, there is no straightforward solution to child aggressiveness. Neither in the Czech Republic, nor anywhere else in the world. © Copyright 1999 Radio Prague All Rights Reserved Please send us your comments RP Home / Radio Prague in English / Commentary | |
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