No Tanks Czech riot police blockade a bridge and display a banner explaining that an anti-IMF demonstration is illegal. Helmets and masks have become standard law enforcement couture all over the world when the IMF is in town, but the police's polite response is far cry from the brutal suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring.

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