By Tom Lochner, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Oct.

Text of report in English by the Bulgarian news agency BTA Sofia, 27 April: Addressing a rally organized by his party in Sofia's Southern Park on Thursday [27 April], [nationalist] Ataka [Attack] leader Volen Siderov urged for a referendum on the deployment of US military bases in Bulgaria.

Thousands of Bulgarians demonstrated Thursday against a deal to allow U.S. troops to use military facilities in the country. U.S.