Crisis management
Václav Klaus criticized Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda in early-
Dec. in Tŭden magazine for dropping out of sight. Svoboda told
the BBC a few days later that he doesn't feel the need to open
the newspapers every day and look at himself. Svoboda has been
everywhere in the media this week, though, along with his
namesake, Deputy Foreign Minister Pavel Svoboda. While Klaus
and Stanislav Gross were being photographed on the ski slopes,
the two Svobodas were busy helping to coordinate the return of
Czech tourists from Southeast Asia and sending aid. Gross didn't
return to Prague until MFD criticized him for coldness. Klaus
hasn't issued any statement on the Asian catastrophe. The
disaster is turning out to be a bigger crisis than first imagined,
with 104 Czechs still missing. The two Svobodas were busy
doing their job when it counted most. [Czech Republic tsunami
tidal waves earthquake Thailand Sri Lanka Indonesia MF Dnes]
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