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To: carranza2 who wrote (47470)	9/27/2002 12:39:13 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

It's Good to be a Euro Bureaucrat. "UPI Hears" As preparations for the NATO summit in Prague, Czech Republic, in November get under way, the venerable Czech Skoda auto manufacturer (now owned by VW) has pulled off a PR coup, arranging to be the summit's official transportation provider. Under a contract just signed with the Czech government, Skoda Auto will provide the following vehicles for NATO Summit delegates: - 55 personal cars of the type Audi A8, of which 10, maximally 12, will be armored; - 171 personal cars of the type Skoda Suberb; - 25 personal cars of the type Skoda Octavia; - 55 minivans of the type VW Caravella and 15 minivans of the type VW LT. There are 19 NATO member states, and seven candidate members who are expected to get the formal go-ahead to join the alliance in Prague. That means 26 heads of government for just 12 armored limos. This is going to be quite a challenge for the Czech government's Protocol Department. Say they make things simpler by ruling out the candidate members. That still leaves them having to explain which seven current heads of NATO government are deemed expendable. upi.com