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RISK The Social Democrats (ČSSD) will not support military projects that are risky for Czech troops if they are not beneficial to the Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported May 5. ČSSD leader Jiří Paroubek told NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer of the decision during Scheffer’s visit to the Czech Republic.

PRISON A well-organized, secret network of neo-Nazis and skinheads has been operating in Czech prisons, Hospodářské noviny wrote May 5. Its members communicate with each other and receive outside funding.
CYCLONE Foreign Affairs Ministry officials will send 2.5 million Kč ($154,527) in aid to the Burmese people hit by Cyclone Nargis, ČTK reported May 5. The cyclone killed at least 15,000 people and 30,000 are missing.
WAR Three Czech soldiers wounded in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan April 30 have been released from the hospital, but a fourth soldier remains in serious condition, ČTK reported May 4. The four returned home along with the body of a fallen comrade.
LIBRARY There is not enough money available to build the winning design of architect Jan Kaplický for a new National Library building in Prague, Culture Minister Vaclav Jehlička told Czech Television May 4.
COURT The senior ruling Civic Democrat Party (ODS) wants to block Czech access to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a priority of the junior ruling Green Party, until the Greens support the planned installation of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil, Lidové noviny wrote May 2.
MONUMENT Voters in Studenec, south Moravia, decided not to remove a relief of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin from a memorial to wartime victims in a May 1 referendum, municipal authority member František Hájek told ČTK.


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