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Radio Prague Enews
Written/Read by Nick Carey
Date: 11.9.1999 


Hello and welcome to the programme. I'm Nick Carey and this is the news.
First, a look at the headlines.


* Parliamentarians and the President have reacted negatively to an
  advertisement in Annonce offering a reward of five million Czech Crowns
  for the removal of ODS leader Vaclav Klaus

* All Prague outlets of the Belgian-owned supermarket chain Delvita were
  searched this afternoon following three separate bomb threats

* And Czech police have detained three physically handicapped Rumanian
  refugees on the Czech-Slovak border


Those were the headlines, now the news in more detail:


Negative reaction to Klaus reward

Czech parliamentarians have reacted negatively to an advertisement in
Wednesday's edition of Annonce in which the paper's publisher, Josef
Kudlacek, offered a reward of five million Czech Crowns to anyone who can
remove the parliamentary chairman and leader of the centre-right Civic
Democratic Party, Vaclav Klaus. The Vice-chairman of the Freedom Union, Petr
Mares, said that this move indicates that certain ways of behaviour are
appearing the country which really don't belong here. Communist deputy Jiri
Mastalka commented that this is a sign that there is something not quite
right with both the political and social spheres in Czech society. President
Havel added his own note of criticism, stating such an advertisement, even
if undertaken half in jest, is a prime example of the constant decline in
general moral standards in the Czech Republic that he has been critical of
for a long time. The Civic Democratic Party has welcomed an investigation
that the police have begun into the affair, and wants to ensure that legal
action is taken depending on the outcome.

Bomb threat in supermarkets

The Belgian-owned supermarket chain Delvita suffered three separate bomb
threats in Prague outlets on Friday afternoon. Three branches of Delvita
received almost identical bomb threats by telephone, stating that bombs
would explode in all Delvita's outlets in Prague this afternoon. The Prague
police were informed and co-ordinated with representatives of the individual
outlets and all twenty two of the chain's Prague supermarkets were searched,
but no explosive devices were discovered. Police are currently investigating
details concerning the incident and are trying to find out the identity of
the perpetrator.


Police arrest three handicapped refugees

The Czech police have arrested three physically handicapped Rumanian
refugees. The three were arrested as they tried to cross the Czech-Slovak
border on their way home to Rumania. The three men apparently have no legs,
and were smuggled into the Czech Republic illegally in July in a car. They
came to the country in order to buy high-quality prosthetic limbs, which
they could not obtain in Rumania. They had been told that they could buy
prosthetic legs in Prague. When, however, they arrived in Prague, they were
informed by friends that they did not have enough money. The three men then
lost all of their money, their documents and in the end survived by begging
on the streets. They then decided to return home to Rumania without
documents, and were arrested very close to the border.

And finally the weather. The weather for Saturday will start off clear, but
may become cloudy later on. Temperatures, though, will remain high, reaching
a maximum of twenty eight degrees centigrade. And that was the news.

				    
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