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1 Many Hungarian authors in Hungary and Slovakia make this assumption. (See, for example, Miklós Kontra's `English Only's Cousin: Slovak Only', Acta Linguistica Hungarica 1995/1996, vol. 43, pp. 345-372.) Such works only mimic in microcosm the conflicts they claim to be attempting to resolve.
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2 Statistical Yearbook of the Slovak Republic (Bartislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1996).
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3 `Palimpsest History', in Stefan Collini, ed., Interpretation and Overinterpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 125-138).
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4 See Lajos Für, `Hungarian History as Taught by Hungary's Neighbors', in Stephen Borsody, ed., The Hungarians: A Divided Nation (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1988, pp. 303-316).
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5 `Foreword', Slovaks and Magyars: Slovak-Magyar Relations in Central Europe (Bratislava: Slovak Ministry of Culture, 1995, p. 5).
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6 The vituperative Slovak-Hungarian exchanges in the press and official correspondence from 1991 through 1994 are recorded in Zsigmond Zalabai, ed., Mit ér a nyelvünk, ha magyar? (What is Our Language Worth if It's Hungarian?) (Bratislava: Kalligram, 1995).
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7 David Lucas, Ethnic Bipolarism in Slovakia, 1989-1995 (Seattle, WA: Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1996).
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8 In full: `Law of the National Council of the Slovak Republic of 15 November 1995 on the State Language of the Slovak Republic' (Zbierka zákonov no. 270/1995 , Part 89, pp. 1999-2002).
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9 Milan Ferko, `The Slovak Language - Language of the State and its Citizens'. (From various sources.)
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10 Minority Protection Association, The Slovak State Language Law and the Minorities Minority Protection Series 1 (Budapest: Kossuth Publishing, 1996).
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11 Lucas, op. cit., p. 11.
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12 Open Media Research Institute Daily Reports, Part II (hereafter OMRI), 21 February 1997.
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13 OMRI, 21 February 1997; 26 February 1997; and 7 March 1997.
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14 Personal communication from an Institute member.
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15 Public opinion research conducted among the Hungarian minority in Slovakia in March 1993 showed 95% rejection of statements indicating disloyalty to the Slovak state, and 74% rejection of irredentist goals. Reported in Pavol Fric, Fedor Gál, Peter Huncík, and Christopher Lord, The Hungarian Minority in Slovakia. (Prague: Institute of Social and Political Science, Charles University, 1995).
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16 Brian Schwegler, `Slovaks We Are and Slovaks We Will Be: The Discourse of Language and Essentialized Identity in Contemporary Slovakia' (University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology ms.), p. 9.
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17 Sammy Smooha & Theodor Hanf, `The Diverse Modes of Conflict Regulation in Deeply Divided Societies', in Anthony Smith, ed., Ethnicity and Nationalism (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), p. 32. See also Graham Smith, `The Ethnic Democracy Thesis and the Citizenship Question in Estonia and Latvia', Nationalities Papers 24, no. 2, 1996, pp. 199-216.
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18 OMRI 12 February 1997.
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19 Zora Bútorová, et al., `Current Problems of Slovakia after the Split of the CSFR' (Report of the Sociological Survey) (Bratislava: Center for Social Analysis, 1993).
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20 See László Gyurgyík, Magyar mérleg: A szlovákiai magyarság a népszámlálási és a népmozgalmi adatok tükrében (Hungarians in the Balance: The Hungarians of Slovakia Viewed through Census and Demographic Data) (Pozsony [Bratislava]: Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 1994).
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21 OMRI, 18 December 1996.
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22 M. Bohus, `Rozvod?' (Divorce?) in Slovensky narod 14 August 1991, cited in Stanislav Kirschbaum, A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
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23 Meciar prepared the Slovak electorate for their country's fall with numerous statements proclaiming BEI bias against Slovakia.