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...number and nature of countries between China and England are a bit fuzzy to Little Lin. But it's through these places that he will have to travel. The snakehead has promised Little Lin a real tourist visa to Russia, then a clandestine overland trip through Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany and onward to England. Little Lin knows he will have to hide in vans and safe houses and subsist on rice gruel. But he is optimistic. Someone from his village recently arrived safely in England after using the same snakehead he has contacted. "It's very safe...
...Czech parliament approves plans to deploy a U.S. missile shield facility in the nearby hills, U.S. personnel are unlikely to be welcomed as the Red Army once was. The village that has yet to shake off its Brezhnev Village nickname is hardly ready to be dubbed Bush Town...
Every summer, journalists bug 87-year-old Jaroslav Ungr, former head of the socialist collective farm that once existed in the Czech village of Zajecov. When Soviet tanks rolled into what was then Czechoslovakia 39 years ago to put an end to the Prague Spring, the now white-haired man in a pink sweater and grey sweatpants was among those who welcomed the Red Army with open arms. But these days the journalists are asking not only about the Russians, but also about the Americans...
...Mayor Hruby, who drove an ambulance before taking office eight years ago, can't conceal his rage at a government that is refusing to "ask the people" to decide in a nationwide vote whether to accept the missile shield facilities on Czech soil. Not seeing a single benefit to having American troops in his backyard, he would certainly vote...
...will be permanently targeted," he says before he paints a grim-yet-goofy picture of a possible terrorist attack on Czech soil: "A dam blows up and Saint Wenceslas [represented by his statue in Prague] will get his feet...