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his boss told him to be there He was to drive us to then make the same sixhour Journey back borne so hed be ready to take another group on a trip to East Germany the next day To make a long story short we finally got away and when tour leader Ray came around with his bag of Chocolate bars he included our disgruntled driver I then risked the ire of several passengers who said I should not be talking to the bus driver In case he put us in the ditch to act as a soun ding board By the time we reached Podebrady halfway to Sumperk the driver was in such a good mood that be not only agreed to stop for beer but also carried the heavy cases back from the store The friendship grew so strong that just before the driver left us after bringing us back to Prague he made a speech over the PA system wishing us the best John Russell passed the hat around new Czech friend went home with a nice little of crowns like Santa Claus Ray always brings along his little plastic bag of goodies Canadian flags pennants and souvenirs to exchange with officials There are always more officials with more titles than you can shake a stick at and If somebody is missed accidentally Ray hears about it and out loud It happened when the Burlington Voty toured a brewery in near Sumperk Reminds me of the Barton Tubes midgets tour when some communist party official didnt get the Canadia hockey stick his colleagues received He snapped something back In Czech which translated would go something like Its okay Ive got a Russian one anyway Powerful Ciech ushers Being the editor of the largest soccer hockey weekly in Czechoslovakia isnt enough to get you Into a hockey game without proper credent I air I discovered Hruby editor of Col the closest thing the Cze have to the Hockey News invited me to watch a couple of periods of a First Division Czech League match between Sparta Prague and Ostrava But when we arrived at the Slavia Winter Stadium well into the second period of the game my col league find his press credentials In his car While he practically turned the car upside down to find them I asked why He replied that another Czech Journalist had recently tried to get Into a game without them and hod bis privileges suspended Another thing I discovered is that the most powerful people In a Czech hockey arena ore the ushers They wear red armbands and theyre often in their KB or 60s But sit only where they tell youor you might find yourself out on your ear I m porta at Interruption At the Sumlcka Vinarna wine cellar in Prague I bod my dinner interrupted by our Czech interpreter who said the malt re d had something very Important to tell me When we met the message was that he thought Id like to know that the Burlington group was wining and dining in the very establishment where Team Canada spent a good deal of its office time during the 197B world championships Every year I visit Europe I find one of the locals anxious to blow the whistle on one of the notorious Team weve been sending to the world championships ever since professionals were first permitted to play In 1977 Lest year in Finland the tale of woe was of Alan leaving a blank cheque at the Hotel In Helsinki to pay for damage done by Canadian players who were upset when the tie between the Soviets and Czechs cut Ihera out of a silver medal Telephone trials Listeners who tuned in to my nightly radio reports on CHML may have noticed me out of breath for the first few paragraphs Making a phone coll in Eastern Europe can keep you hopping In our first stop In Czechoslovakia to book the call at the desk In the lobby then run back up to my room on the second floor to wait for the con nection When I got It the lady suggested it would be better for me Denis Gibbons to take it in an office in the lobby so I ran back down again It takes anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour for the connection to be made from the time you book your call and make It clear that you want it to be collect Quality of the line ranges anywhere from very good as it was the night I colled from Pribram to almost nanexistent as Craig round out when I reported from Nevertheless all 12 reports scheduled came through which was an Improvement over last year when we connected on only two of seven calls out of the Soviet Union and had to pay American up front for each call because long distance collect calls are not per mitted out of the USSR Airport Travellers who have visited the east before found our exit from Czechoslovakia relatively easy this time But it was an experience for firsttime visitors There are six major stages to go through from the time you arrive at the airport by bus until you board the plane First is a lineup to show your passport and visa Next you haul your luggage over to scales to be weighed Then theres a second passport control at which your visa now invalid Is taken away from you Forth step is to pass through electronic doors which check you for any weapons you may be carrying Fifth is the third and final passport 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