WORLD : Czechs in 10-Minute Protest
Hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovaks staged a 10-minute strike today to demand that the Communist Party hand over property it gained unlawfully during four decades of monopoly rule.
At 10 minutes before noon, car horns began blaring and shopkeepers closed their doors to support the strike called by the opposition movement Civic Forum chapter located at the CKD Polovodice factory.
In Wenceslas Square, several thousand people jangled their keys in unison--a reminder of the November “Velvet Revolution” when hundreds of thousands gathered in the same square had produced the eerie sound to signify that the communists’ lock on power was over.
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