Protesters seek end to public money for pro-radar campaign

Members of the Ne Základnam or No to Radars campaign undertook a publicity stunt today to highlight the fact that public money is being used to promote the proposed US military system being located on Czech soil. The protesters handed out symbolic bills to individual government ministers for 882,000 crowns. These bills are said to represent the average amount that each minister has spent of an estimated 15 million crowns of public money to promote the US radar base. The campaigners plan to hold a march through Prague on the 15 March. Opinion polls consistently indicate that a majority of Czechs appose the Bush administration’s plan to locate an anti-missile radar system in the Czech Republic