sport/news digest

IN BRIEF
Two Czech hitchhikers stole 120,000 Kč from an unsuspecting Italian who had picked them up.
Police Chief Kolář: Special units could be more effective in the fight against organized crime.
A bronchial infection and slight fever put President Havel in the hospital yesterday. He is on antibiotics. ... Minister Grulich also took sick and is at home.
Police will study textbook 'Human Rights and the Police' beginning in April.
The Young Democrats want to cooperate with 15 other small parties not in parliament, to fill left-center space on the political spectrum.
KDU-ČSL's Jiří Vacek will prepare a new Drug Law to take the place of the two paragraphs which make up drug regulations now.
Minister and Deputy Premier Špidla is willing to run for ČSSD chairman at its 30th conference.
ČT2 served public interest by running a course in Romany, the language, which began last night. A series on Roma culture is to follow.
ČSA will fly Prague-Ostrava seven times a week instead of the current five, and will offer four other flights via Fischer Air.
ČNB Banker Niedermayer: Czech weaknesses include fiscal politics and pension system.
Erste Bank will make a first payment of 50 million euros (1.8 billion Kč) for Česká Spořitelna today.
Spolchemie has cut toxic emissions 60% in the last five years.
Auto sales rose 36.8% in the first two months of 2000.
Industrial output rose 3.9%, an adjusted 1.7%, in January y-o-y.
(čtk, glg)