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No TV time The British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which wanted to promote its publications on television alongside a controversial drama about nuclear war, has been refused air time by the commercial television network. The Independent Television Contractors' Association said that the group’s aims were political, which meant it could not buy advertising time under the rules governing television in BritainLondon. Czech N-plea Czechoslovak students have started a petition campaign against the stationing of new Soviet nuclear missiles in their country, a reliable emigre source says. Petitions are being circulated in Brno, in central Czechoslovakia, about 200 km south-east of Prague, and other main cities, the source said. Czechoslovakia and East Germany, both members of the Soviet-led, seven-nation Warsaw Pact military alliance, have agreed to have the new missiles on their territories in response to N.A.T.O. deployment of 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe. In an unusually candid move, Czechoslovakia’s State-run news media have recently conceded that there is public opposition to deployment of the new Soviet missiles.— Vienna. Bus crashes . At least five people were killed and many others injured when a school bus filled with teen-age students slid off an icy road in eastern France and crashed in afield.—Paris. £
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