EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010113-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: January 30, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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EkST EUROPE BATCH; NOTES 30 Jan. 1974
.YUGOSLAVIA
Pres's'ures' Mount 'to Oust' Dissident P:r'o:fess'orxs
The Serb leadership is keeping up. the pressure to force
expulsion of eight dissident philosophy lecturers at Belgrade
University. Yesterday, the Serbian Executive Council advised
that it would not fund scientific projects in the philosophical
or sociological fields if. direction of these projects were
entrusted to the controversial professors or their followers.
Furthermore, if the faculty committee fails to take
decisive action against the professors, the newly-elected
secretary of the LC University Committee threatens further
unspecified measures by the university assembly. The faculty
committee charged with the. disposition of the case has con-
sistently been either. unwilling or. unable to resolve the
Warsaw, Bonn. Haggle over Credits
Polish-West German negotiations designed to clear the way
for party chief Gierek to visit Bonn in March are not making
much headway. The bilateral commission that was established
to negotiate an FRG credit to Poland has met and failed to
agree; Bonn is offering only DM one billion, which Gierek
probably does not regard as a sufficient basis for his trip.
The Poles are asking DM three billion. Given the stalemate
on credits, Deputy Foreign Minister Czvrek's current talks
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in Bonn on the. emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland will
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Ra offs, S.oci.ali:st Style
At a press. conference yesterday in Prag,ue,.t,.he Director
of Public Security 'a'nnounced that 30,000.pexsons were arrested
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last year for. economic. crimes, chiefly the theft of.sociali.st
property. Their criminal activities resulted in losses to
the state amounting to approximately 17 million dollars. He
said that a frequent condition leading to economic crime is
the lack of discipline in the economy, especially in construction.
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