Czech Senate Votes to Send Specialists to Olympics

The Czech Senate voted 62-0 yesterday to send a team of 100 chemical weapons specialists to the Olympic Games this summer, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, June 22).

The lower legislative chamber of the Czech Republic approved the move last month, AP reported.

NATO requested the Czech specialists be deployed to the Aug. 13-29 games in Athens as part of a force that would respond to any use of weapons of mass destruction (Associated Press/Yahoo!News, July 13).

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