CZECH REPUBLIC:  Hawks and Doves Clash over U.S. Base
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BUDAPEST, Jan 31 (IPS) - The new right-wing government of the Czech  Republic, eager to prove its "prestige" as a reliable  ally of the United States, last week started negotiations for the  setting up of a military base in the Czech Republic. It will not  be easy.
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Choosing a team to build the new fleet of helicopters to fly the president has become a vitriol-laced, hyper-politicized battle involving two veteran aerospace companies.
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BUDAPEST, Sep 15 (IPS) - Experts from the United States have recently - and  controversially -- visited several localities in the Czech  Republic and Poland to consider a military base for the National  Missile Defence (NMD) programme.
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STOCKHOLM- Czech pilots made their first independent flights on the Jas-39 Gripen fighters, a type Prague has leased to modernise the Czech air force, at the Swedish air base F7 near Satenaes on Sunday, the ...
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The U.S. anti-missile system, a part of which is to be a radar to be stationed in the Czech Republic, will protect Europe, British Minister of State for Europe Geoff Hoon, said at a discussion organised staged ...Comment
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.S. missile defense system, a top Russian general warned Monday.Comment
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Just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 29, a group of U.S. airmen entered a sod-covered bunker on North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base with orders to collect a set of unarmed cruise missiles bound for a weapons graveyard. They quickly pulled out a dozen cylinders, all of which appeared identical from a cursory...
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Russia's military is capable of firing  missiles at Poland and the Czech Republic if they agreed to  host a U.S. missile shield, Russia's Strategic Forces commander  said, but added it was for the Kremlin to decide.
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NATO's chief and a top Russian lawmaker on Monday clashed over a U.S. plan for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
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PRAGUE, Dec 18 (IPS) - A report by U.S. intelligence services minimising  the Iranian threat has meant another embarrassment for Czech  politicians supportive of U.S. plans to set up a radar base in  Central-Eastern Europe.
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Czech and Polish leaders back a US plan to install missile defence facilities on their territory.
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As UFO hype builds, a U.S. military base in the area changes its story.
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The Czech Republic will not allow  Russian soldiers to be stationed at a planned U.S. radar base  in the country but might permit Russian inspections, Prime  Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Thursday.
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Six British soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the Czech Republic, a Czech Defence Ministry spokesman says. Andrej Cirtek said the soldiers had been participating in a Czech
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer MOSCOW -- Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.S. missile defense system, a top Russian general ...Comment
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US President George W. Bush on Tuesday kicked off a whirlwind European tour in the Czech Republic -- focus of a bitter row with Russia over plans to deploy a US missile defence shield in Central Europe.