Word: czechs
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...This remark comes in the context of Russia’s recent conflict with Georgia and its threats to bomb proposed U.S. missile sites in Poland. These sites, which would be part of a missile defense system that the U.S. plans to install in Poland and the Czech Republic, would defend Europe against a possible threat from “rogue states,” namely Iran and North Korea. Even if the missiles that the U.S. is planning to install would actually be used as intended, the current plans for the missile defense system should be either altered...
...Installing the missiles is a touchy issue not only because of the geographic proximity of nations to Russia, but also because of their former status as satellites of the U.S.S.R. During the Cold War, Poland and the Czech Republic were part of the Warsaw Pact, which the U.S.S.R. formed in response to NATO. After the Cold War ended, however, they aligned themselves with Western Europe, and as of 2007, six of the eight founding Warsaw Pact states had joined NATO and the European Union. Although NATO is no longer officially an enemy of Russia, Russia’s opposition...
...system. In April, however, NATO declared its support for the missile defense system, so if Iran’s nuclear capabilities are truly an urgent threat, it should be possible to install the system in a NATO member state farther from Russia’s borders than Poland the Czech Republic...
Olmert's last official cabinet meeting on Sunday had a touch of the surreal: at first the Premier chatted about Wall Street's woes and Israel's basketball win over the Czech team before announcing offhandedly that he was resigning. Several hours later he dropped his resignation letter off at the President's residence. The normally loquacious Olmert summed up his resignation in two sentences. Peres later said, "I respect the dignified manner in which [Olmert] is transferring authority...
...death toll, which is expected to rise still further, included four foreigners: Ivo Zdarek, the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, two Americans assigned to the U.S. Embassy, and a Vietnamese woman. "The target was the Marriott," Rehman Malik, the Interior Ministry chief, told a packed news conference in the gloom-filled Pakistani capital. Contradicting earlier reports that the original target had been the nearby parliament building, where newly-elected President Asif Ali Zardari had earlier made his inaugural address, Malik said the bombers had targeted an "international chain" in search of "international attention...