EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

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#200 EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER OCI #0995/72
25 Oct. 1972
Yugoslav E'x'e'rci's'e' '"P'o'c7a'o'ra' '7'2'"' 13.eg~i'ns
Over the past weekend units of the Yugoslav navy, air force
and territorial defense started a combined exercise designed
to test Yugoslavia's ability to drive off a sea-borne invasion.
According to the exercise scenario, the aggressor force estab-
lishes a beachhead on Lastovo, a small island near Split, and
then attempts to drive inland from there. Press releases are 25X1
claiming that a great amount of realism has been built into
the exercise.
"Podgora 72"is a continuation of the annual mass exercises
begun last year with "Sloboda 71," a mock defense against a
land invasion by forces with clear but unspoken.similarities
to the Soviet Army. Podgora, on the other hand, reportedly
presupposes an attack by a modernized naval force with huge
surface ships and overwhelming naval air su ort. It looks
like Tito is balancin the books a ain.
~5~urvey 'o'f' 'P'o'li's'h' 'Fo're'ign ~P'o~l~i?cy
Foreign Minister Olszowski's 19 October report to the Sejm
(parliament) on foreign relations broke no new ground. While
the USSR came in for a bit more lavish praise than usual, his
remarks on relations with the. US also were'lorig and distinctly
positive,.. O1s~zowski el~imed that relation s. with France. (of
"particularimportanc~":) had ent~e~;ed a new phase. Scandinavia
was. warmly mentioned as ari area with'which'Pnland was having
an "intensive political'dialogue.R"' The foreign minister's
discussion'of Weft Germany way'warmer and. more positive than
it had-been thXS spring--before ratification of .'the Polish-West
German t~eat~--arid singled out Willy arandt for~s~ebial p~'aise.
?Vietnam tams' treated in milder. toriee ths.n usual and China was simply
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scolded Pow its. anti-Soviet po~.ic~ atnd for. groix~g agaa.nst the
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