EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010114-0
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: January 29, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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ROMANIA
Prague Pushes Cooperation
Prague's commentary on the recent conference of party
secretaries in Moscow will undoubtedly grate on Romanian ears.
On 25 January, the Czechoslovak party daily wrote that
"although Communist parties work in specific national conditions,
the talks and principles they try to implement are identical.
It would be. very harmful," Rude P'ravo continued, "if they
closed themselves into the narrow national framework, magnified
specific (national) conditions and stood them against the tasks
of the socialist community and the international movement as a
whole." The commentary ends with an article of faith--the need
to carry out the conclusions adopted at last summer's Crimean
summit "which are directed towards closer cooperation of the
Communist parties."
Although the recent meeting. dealt with strengthening the
organization of the party, which Bucharest could easily support,
talk like the Czech commentary is clearly pointed at t
nationalistic-minded Romanians.
Fog Delays Husayn Visit
Jordanian King Husayn spent Monday night in Istanbul after
his plane was unable to land at Bucharest's fog-shrouded Otopeni
airport. President Ceausescu, other top Romanian leaders,
and representatives of all the Arab states had turned out to
greet the king at the beginning of a planned three-day official
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overnighting in Turkey, the king's party finally
WARSAW PACT-ROMANIA
The Bulgarian news agency announced yesterday that the
Warsaw Pact defense ministers committee will meet in Bucharest
in early February. The last :s:uch meeting was. held in Warsaw in
February 1973 and,, on the basis of alphabetic rotation it is
Romania's turn to play host. Soviet Marshal; I. I..Yakub.ovosky,
commander-in.-chief of the Pact's joint forces, was in Bucharest
ast week to make arrangements for the conference.
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BULGARIA-EAST GERMANY
Like Minds in' Pankow
Predictably, Bulgarian party boss Zhivk.ov!s.v'isit to
East Germany last week produced adulation of Moscow and
castigation of Peking, which was said to have broken completely
with Marxism-Leninism. Economic. cooperation, especially in the
context of CEMA integration, was the chief topic of discussion.
HUNGARY
Economic Ties with West Germany
Less than two months after their. establishment of full
diplomatic relations, Bonn and Budapest are already busy plotting
long-range economic and commercial relations. Hungarian foreign
trade minister Biro's current six-day visit to the FRG will focus
on the prospects for a long-term economic agreement and further
enterprise-Level collaboration. Biro is scheduled to meet with
Brandt before he leaves on February 2.
Economic ties between the two countries never suffered much
in the; absence of diplomatic relations; German statistics claim
that bilateral trade has quadrupled in the last 10 years. West
German economic dealings with Hungary have, however, been a
matter of sensitivity to the Hungarians, who may have been
getting some heat from the Soviets and East Germans. A Hungarian
official once implied that trade with the FRG could not exceed
a certain level because of "Political considerations," T_ -1
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Prague 'Appr'oves' WE Communist Meeting
Reporting on the conclusion of the three-dayconferen.ce of
West European Communist parties, Prague radio says that "no one
has any. doubts that the Eura.pean Communist movement has been
.given an important impetus." While there was much speculation
beforehand that the meeting might "be a further display of the
disunity of the Communist movement,". this turned out to be
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wishful thinking. The final document is termed an important
basis for the next world Communist conference.
YUGOSLAVIA
Philosophy Profs Still in Place
The fate of the eight dissident lecturers of the Philo-
sophical Faculty at Belgrade University remains unresolved.
New statutes being considered by the faculty council charged
with the case must be adopted prior to any decision on the
suitability of the lecturers to. continue in their positions.
The council, however, has postponed adoption of the statutes
for a week, and a final decision will be reached only after
"extensive and documented discussion." it now appears that
the faculty council may not be willing or able to purge the
eight before students return from their semester break in
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