After the frenesy of the stormy "Night of Long Knives", when Meciar's newly formed red-brown parliamentary coalition modified many legal texts, after epuration of the State apparate of "politically incorrect" servants, after a savage "privatisation" of State property into hands of a bunch of vasals, after demarches of USA and European Union, after the abduction of the President's son and murder of a friend of the key witness, after stripping deputy F. Gaulieder of his parliamentary mandate, Slovakia is living a new political scandal called REFERENDUM. The story begins when the petition calling for referendum on direct election of the President collected enough signatures and there was an imminent danger for Meciar that the next president of the Republic might escape his control like Michal Kovac did. Meciar has then decided to bring a new issue, the entry of the country into NATO, where noone invited Slovakia, hoping that people will say "no". In order to help them to give the correct answer, two more questions were added: Do you want nuclear weapons on our territory ? Do you want military bases on our territory ? Meciar hoped the NATO [1119 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go.py?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=4613314&hilit=ART+SATELLITES> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&4667781 Score: 78 Subject: Americana - Catalogue (Colorado to Lindbergh)