WORLD IN BRIEF : CZECHOSLOVAKIA : Slovaks Protest Language Law
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Several thousand Slovak nationalists demonstrated in Bratislava to protest a new law making Slovak the official language in that part of Czechoslovakia; they say the law does not go far enough. Forty Slovak students began a hunger strike on the steps of the Slovak National Council in Bratislava to show their opposition to the law adopted Thursday. A more radical version of the law, supported by the nationalists, would have barred separate language instruction for Slovakia’s 600,000 ethnic Hungarians.
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