CZECH REPUBLIC: People Battle Radar Site

                   
ipsnews.net     May 22, 2008            

CZECH REPUBLIC: People Battle Radar Site By Zoltán Dujisin PRAGUE, May 21 (IPS) - On the early morning of Apr. 28, 20 Greenpeace activists occupied an area of the Brdy woods 90km southwest of Prague, where the Czech right-wing cabinet intends to set up a radar base that will extend the U.S.... [read full story]                

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Radar opponents to continue hunger strike

praguemonitor.com     May 19, 2008          

By ČTK / Published 19 May 2008 Prague, May 17 (CTK) - Opponents of the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar will continue with their protest hunger strike they started on Tuesday, they told journalists Saturday. They vowed to only accept liquids until some of their...                

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Czechs to clear US radar site of possible ammunition

praguemonitor.com     May 19, 2008          

By ČTK / Published 19 May 2008 Prague, May 16 (CTK) - Czechs will have to perform a bomb clearing operation on the site of the U.S. radar base before its planned stationing on Czech soil, the Czech Defence Ministry said Friday, referring to the Czech-U.S. main treaty on the base. The base is to...                

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Police to toughen steps against tourists in radar area

praguemonitor.com     May 20, 2008          

By ČTK / Published 20 May 2008 Misov, West Bohemia, May 19 (CTK) - The Czech military police who have been monitoring the site of the ongoing Greenpeace's protest against the planned stationing of a U.S. missile defence radar near Misov for three weeks will take stricter measures against tourists...                

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US Centre in Prague opens exhibition on radar

praguemonitor.com     May 20, 2008          

By ČTK / Published 20 May 2008 Prague, May 19 (CTK) - A photographic exhibition about "the life close to the U.S. radar base" has been opened in the American Centre in Prague, in connection with the planned stationing of the radar on Czech soil, the U.S. Embassy in Prague has told CTK. Some 50...                

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Czech govt. approves main treaty on U.S. radar base

people.com.cn     May 22, 2008          

The Czech government discussed and officially approved the main treaty on the building of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said in Teplice of the country on Wednesday. The treaty will be submitted to parliament for ratification along with the second treaty (SOFA)...                

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