On his arrival in the Czech Republic, Ginsberg, 67, who recently supported the call for the international tribunal and visited various parts of former Yugoslavia in October on a trip sponsored by the Soros Foundation, presented his strategy for a "high-tech information attack" in former Yugoslavia. Ginsberg believes it would be technically feasible and relatively cheap - compared to a military intervention - to cover the whole territory of former Yugoslavia with a TV and radio signal in the Serbo-Croatian language which would urge the people to stop fighting and disobey the nationalist leaders, and explain to them how much they will gain if the sanctions are lifted. "Lots of people in Serbia, for instance, are against Milosevic but they have no other information than the Belgrade media, and they are desperately hungry for information," said Ginsberg. "Instead of a cultural blockade of Serbia, we should have a high-technology cultural blitzkrieg," said Ginsberg, who acknowledges that such a strategy would of

course be a "violation of the sovereignty of Serbia", i.e. the violation of the rights of governments (in this case, the one of Milosevic) - he believes, however, that international right should not consist of the rights of goverments but of the rights of individuals. Even though the strategy may fail, it is worth trying, said Ginsberg, who also reports that many people in Serbia believe that it would be very good if singers, musicians and other artists went into Serbia in great numbers to perform there during the "cultural blitz" and persuade the people to stop obeying the nationalist leaders.

During a public reading in Olomouc, Ginsberg also attacked the "War on Drugs" policy of the U.S. Government, which he considers to be the cause of the vicious circle now enacted in America: more people in jail for drugs (almost half of them for "crimes" connected with marijuana!) - more jails - more police - higher expenses for repression - etc. Ginsberg's bold proposal is to legalize marijuana immediately; this could help solve the crisis of small American farms, which could start growing marijuana as a cash crop.

In private talks with Radical party members in Olomouc, Ginsberg expressed his full support for Radical ideas on Bosnia, drugs, the environment, and the death penalty.

OTHER RADICAL NEWS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC:

CZECH SOCIETY FOR AN UNDIVISIBLE BOSNIA founded in Prague

With the participation of a number of Radicals, the Czech Society for an Undivisible Bosnia was founded in Prague on Nov.29th, 1993. The society has vowed to press the Czech Goverment and Parliament to support military intervention in Bosnia. The plan for a "cultural high-tech blitzkrieg", first announced in June by Paolo Pietrosanti and repeated now independently by Allen Ginsberg, was presented at the conference by Jan Jarab and integrated into the program of the Society.

Among many illustrious personalities who participated in the foundation of the Society were: Jan URBAN, the leader of the Civic Forum in the first half of 1990, Simon PANEK, the No 1 leader of the student revolution of 1989, Vaclav BENDA, Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, Josef VAVROUSEK, ex-Minister of Environment, Raymond REHNICER, architect, writer and environmentalist from Sarayevo, Andrej GJURIC, a prominent member of the Czech Parliament, Egon LANSKY, former Deputy Foreign Minister, and a number of prominent journalists.

Jaromir STETINA, editor-in-chief of Lidove noviny, a popular Czech daily, spoke about the Tribunal and proposed that it start with obviously criminal deeds on the non-political level, i.e. with establishing responsibility for individual killings - an "anti-Nuremberg strategy" - and then move upward. If they start with Milosevic, believes Stetina, they will simply get nowhere. Stetina plans to get Czech lawyers to launch this initiative to the Tribunal, asking it to prosecute selected individual killings and massacres.

Simon PANEK, who is now the head of "SOS Sarayevo" foundation, commented on the success of the collection of money among ordinary Czech citizens. The foundation expected to collect some 5 million Czech crowns for humanitarian aid; they have now got 30 million in only a few weeks and that number is still growing, as more and more Czechs express their solidarity to the suffering Bosnians. Incredibly, this non-governmental aid from Czech citizens amounts to more than 10% of all the humanitarian aid sent by the world to Bosnia right now, and the international organizations have even said to "SOS Sarayevo" that they should slow down because they are sending too much aid (no comment).

GROWING SUPPORT FOR RADICAL AMENDMENT TO THE CZECH CITIZENSHIP LAW

Andrej Gjuric, a prominent M.P. for the ruling ODS party, expressed full support for the Radical amendment (proposed by P.Horak and J.Jarab to the citizenship law). Gjuric, who is involved also in matters concerning Bosnia, is the first M.P. of the ruling coalition who took a principled stand on the proposed amendment and defended it in parliamentary debate together with a group of deputies from the opposition Social Democratic Party. Also Pavel Rychetsky, the former Vice-Premier of Czechoslovakia and one of the leaders of the Free Democrats (Citizens Movement), wrote a treatise on the citizenship law based on the Radical's initiative, and supports a liberalization of this highly unfair and discriminatory law.

Still, these politicians remain in a minority, and it seems that unless there is substantial political pressure on the Czech Parliament and unless these deputies receive support from foreign parliamentarians, more than 100 000 people will be left without citizenship and a tragic situation, with possible mass deportations - a "legal ethnic cleansing" - will result in 1994.

RADICAL PARLIAMENTARIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD! THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW! WHEN THERE IS BLOOD, IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE. SEND LETTERS TO THE CZECH PARLIAMENT IMMEDIATELY!