EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001200020071-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: September 6, 1972
• Content Type: STUDY

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EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER OCI #0963/72
6 Sept. 1972
Eastern Europe States Condemn Arab Terrorists
Several Eastern European countries have issued comments
on the action of the Arab terrorists in Munich and more can
be expected in the near future. Those who have already
commented:
1. East Germany: Pankow was quick yesterday to condemn
the actions as a despicable crime" and stated that the GDR
rejected terror as a means of achieving political ends.
"With their outrage", one editorial claimed, "the Black
September organization did great harm to the Arab states,
who are united with us in friendship." The article added
that the GDR stands by the Arabs against Israeli aggression
and supports a political solution to the mid-East conflict.
The East Germans thus have presumably divorced themselves
from violence prone Palestinian movements.
While it is important to East Germany to protect its
relations with the Arab states, Pankow was bitterly disap-
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is running a strong third in overall competition and the XXth
Olympiad has been a milestone in Pankow's quest for inter-
national respectability.
2. Yugoslavia: The Yugoslav delegation to the inter-
national "University Today" seminar, currently being held in
Dubrovnik, issued a statement condemning the attack on the
Israeli, Olympic team. "In connection with the incursion of
members of the 'Black September' organization into the Olympic
village at the XXth Olympic games in Munich, the delegation
of the Students' Federation of Yugoslavia considers that such
an action deserves decisive condemnation. Such a piratical
attack on sportsmen d1d sports workers is enormously damaging
to the just struggle of the Palestine people who have been
deprived of their social, human and national rights for twenty-
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four years. The attack also wrecks and compromises, in the
eyes of the world the Palestine revolution, and this is made
use of by the ememies of the revolution."
The students' statement is the first public comment on
the tragedy made in Yugoslavia. The students' sentiments,
however, are undoubtedly shared throughout the country.
Yugoslavia itself was the victim of a guerrilla attack in
early July which took the lives of 13 local law enforcement
officials. Belgrade may support the Arab cause, but as in
the air line hijackings two years ago, draws the line at this
sort of violence.
3. Czechoslovakia: A strong condemnation along the
same lines appeared in Rude Pravo this morning.
4. Hungary: A condemnation has appeared in Budapest
Domestic Service.
The Nationalist. Pot Continues to Simmer
The political lull this summer has done little to calm
the nationalist tensions plaguing Yugoslavia.
Two twenty year old girls from northern Bosnia-.
Hercegovina have been indicted on charges of aiding Ustashi
terrorists in Sweden. The two were employed temporarily in
Scandinavia in 1970, and at that time allegedly placed their
apartment "at the disposal" of the Ustashi terrorists who
murdered'Ambassador Rolovic.
In Macedonia, Professor Petar Zaharov has been arrested;,
carries with it the unforgiveable message to Belgrade that
on suspicion of "spreading hostile propaganda" in that
republic. Zaharov's propaganda apparently claimed that
"chaotic conditions" in Yugoslavia and racial intolerance
between the country's diverse nationalities, would spell
the disintegration of the federation. All this would be to
the benefit of Bulgaria, which Zaharov finds an attractive
idea. Adding insult to injury is Zaharov's contention that
Macedonia and the Macedonian language are pure fiction,
artifica'lly created by Yugoslavia. This sort of propaganda
Macedonians are really Bulgarians.
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Yugoslav Calls for Radical Refoxm of Education
Speaking to workers at the construction site of the
Belgrade $ar railroad, Federal Assembly President Mijalko
Todorovic criticized unequal opportunities for Yugoslav
youth in obtaining an education. One solution to the problem,
he suggested, is to link education with production--that is,
after elementary education is completed, everyone should go
to work, Then Todorovic reasoned, access to'higher education
would be equal for all, inkeeping with their "abilities,
work and inclination:"
All this may sound good in theory, but putting it into
practice is something else. The day of a. truly nationwide
Yugoslav educational program is gone. Yugoslavia is a
decentralized state with each republic having the final say
over its educational program. Furthermore, given the intense
nationality rivalries, under decentralization it is most
unlikely that a republic such :a,s Croatia would accept any
suggestion-no matter-how good--from a Serb such as Todorovic.
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