STAFF NOTES: SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE
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April 1, 1975
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SOVIET UNION . EASTERN EUROPE
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CONTENTS
April 1, 1975
Belgrade Edgy on Soviet-
Bulgarian Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Yugoslavs Protest Assassination
Attempt in Lyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
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New Socio-Economic Institute
in Leningrad . . . . . . . . . . . ? ? ? ? ?
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CHRONOLOGY . . . . . . . . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Betel rade Edgy on Soviet-Bulgarian Cooperation
The Yugoslavs are once again openly criti-
cizing the Soviets and Bulgaria for their stands
on disputed issues involving the two Balkan coun-
tries.
The latest target of Yugoslav ire is an arti-
cle commemorating the 30th anniversary of the "de-
feat of fascism" by Marshal Yakubovsky, L-apreme
commander of the Warsaw Pact. Yakubovsky's claim
that the Soviet army played a key role in organ-
izing all the liberation efforts in Eastern Europe
has always sharply offended Belgrade, the more so
in this case because it supports a disputed Bul-
garian version of the war. Yugoslav journalists
are denouncing the Soviet and Bulgarian lines as a
deliberate attempt to minimize the extensive Yugo-
slav and Albanian guerrilla war effort, which re-
ceived no Soviet support until late in the war.
It is not yet clear how far Belgrade intends
to carry its denunciations of the Yakubovsky arti-
cle. Tito is currently in the Macedonian Republic
--which borders on Bulgaria--for talks with local
leaders.
The week before Tito's arrival, Macedonian
authorities had held a series of meetings to dis-
cuss border security in towns adjacent to Bulgaria.
The atmosphere thus appears primed for Tito to re-
state Yugoslav determination to fend off any pres-
sures from this quarter.
Although the dispute over Yakubovsky's arti-
cle may at first glance appear to be a simple
difference in historical viewpoint, it means much
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morn to the Yugoslavs, who see in it an explicit
attack on their independent defense and foreign
policies.
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Yugoslav sensitivities go beyond bruised
pride, ultimately resting on wariness that collu-
sion between Bulgaria and the USSR could pose a
threat to Yugoslav national security.
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Yugoslavs Protest Assassination
Attempt in Lyons
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The Yugoslavs on Sunday delivered diplomatic
protests to both the French ambassador in Belgrade
and the Foreign Ministry in Paris as a result of
the terrorist attack on its vice consul in Lyons
the previous day. Belgrade's angry reaction pre-
sages a determined effort to persuade France to
crack down on Yugoslav emigres.
Belgrade's protest included demands that Paris
take the "most vigorous measures" to find and punish
the terrorists and hinted that the incident could
affect bilateral relations. The Yugoslavs probably
hope to convince Paris that it should suppress all
anti-Titoist emigres. Similar pressures on the West
Germans and the Australians have resulted in the
denial of safe haven to a number of emigre-terrorist
groups.
A Croat emigre organization, the National Re-
sistance, has claimed responsibility for machine-
gunning the Yugoalav diplomat. The National Resis-
tance is a particularly vicious terrorist group
that organized both the assassination of the Yugo-
slav ambassador to Sweden in 1971 and an aerial
hijacking that led to the subsequent release of the
assassins. The group's leader reportedly
The Croat Revolu-
tionary Brotherhood, the organization that led the
1972 guerrilla raid into Yugoslavia, also reportedly
has ties to t ional Resistance. The Brother-
hood's leader
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New Socio-Economic.
Ins ute in Len ncrrad
The USSR Academy of Sciences has announced (in
Vestnik, No. 2, 1975) the establishment of an In-
stitute of Socio-Economic Problems in Leningrad.
The institute's director will. be Geliy Nikolayevich
Cherkasov, a relative unknown who was previously a
professor at the Leningrad Finance Economics In-
stitute. The new institute is biing organized from
the existing Leningrad "sektors" of the Institute
of Philosophy, the Institute of Sociological Re-
search, and the Institute of Economics, and the
Leningrad branches of the Central Economic-Mathe-
matical Institute and the Institute of the History
of Natural Science and Technology. The Institute
of Socio-Economic Problems will be subordinate to
the Academy's Economics Department, although the
Philosophy and Law Department will direct the re-
search which relates to those fields.
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CHRO
NOLOGY
March 20 V. I. Dol
Committee
DPRK Amba
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March 23-25 Bulgarian
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Foreign Min
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President
Peron.
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March 24 All-union
marking t
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Secre-
boss
Masherov, and Moldavian party boss
Bodyul; Politburo member and Minister
of A riculture Pot ansky also attends.
March 25 Gambian President Jawara departs
USSR after his official visit.
Party congress.
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Politburo member Kirilenko returns'
to Moscow from the Italian Communist
Ngouabi.
Brezhnev and Foreign Minister Gromyko
confer with visiting Congo President
Czechoslovak Federal Assembly con-
venes for a two-day meeting; Premier
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Strougal delivers a major speech on
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domestic and foreign policy.
March 25-28 Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mladenov
in Peru where he signs long-term eco-
nomic cooperation and cultural agree-
ments.
March 26 President Podgorny, First Deputy
Premier Mazurov, and Foreign Minister
Gromyko confer with visiting go
President Ngouabi.
East German Politburo member Warnke
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at the city's only synagogue.
Diplomatic sources in Phnom Penh
report that the Soviet embassy there
is closing down.
Moscow police harass several hundred
Jews attending the Passover service
US, USSR, and UK deposit their in-
struments of ratification of the
convention curbing the development
and stockpiling of biological
weapons, an action which will permit
the convention enter into force.
First group of East German workers for
the Orenburg pipeline project departs
for the USSR.
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East German-Austrian consular agreement
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Bulgarian National Assembly ends a two-
day session which features a lengthy
"accountability report" delivered by
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March 27 Yugoslav airlines commences spring
charter flights to and from New
York; the government in Belgrade
fears a possible hijacking bi
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Congolese President Ngouabi concludes
talks at the Kremlin. Agreements were
signed on cooperation in the economic,
technical and mining areas.
Yugoslav Minister of Defense Ljubicic
arrives in Libya.
Guyana's Prime Minister Burnham
concludes Romanian visit.
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Meeting of CEMA lannin commission
opens in Moscow.
March 28 M. V. Tolstikov, Soviet Ambassador
to PRC, delivers official message
to Norodom Sihanouk stating that
USSR recognizes only GRUNC as the
legal government of Cambodia.
Yugoslav Party Secretary Kurtovic holds
talks on ideology with Ceausescu in
Bucharest.
March 29 Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mladenov
begins an official visit to Cuba.
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service in Moscow synagogue.
Moscow police again harass Passover
March 29-30 Artists show in seven apartments un-
conventional. paintings by 100 of their
fellows from Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi
Alma Ata, and the Ukraine.
March 30 Bu..garian Foreign Trade Minister Nedev
arrives in Romania for official talks.
March 31 Politburo member Shelepin arrives in
London, two days early, for talks with
British Trade Union leaders.
Yugoslav-Soviet economic protocol signed
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Two Jews sentenced in Moscow to five
years exile for pro-emi ra ion demon-
stration.
Dissident writer Anatoly Marchenk:-'
sentenced to four years exile osten-
sibly for parole violation.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi
meets with the Soviet Ambassador to
Cairo, Vladimir Polyakov, discussing
the Mideast situation in the wake of
the failure of Secretary Kissin er's
in Moscow.
East German First Deputy Premier and
Politburo member Mitta be ins a visit
to Bulgaria.
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Gonzalo
Facio ends a six-day official visit to
Romania.
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FUTURE EVENTS
April 5 Polish Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
Motyka to return home to take charge
of cultural affairs for the party.
April 6 Romanian Minister of Heavy Machinery
Avram to begin a two-week, official
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April 7 Czechoslovak Federal Assembly
president Indra to begin a one-week,
official visit to Iran.
April 9
US Postal Service delegation to begin
a one-week official visit to the
USSR.
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an official visit to Czechoslovakia.
UN Secretary General Waldheim to make
April 10 US-Soviet commercial commission to
convene in Moscow for a two-day
meeting with Treasur Secretar
Simon on hand.
April 18 Communist-front World Peace Council
to convene a three-day meeting in
East Berlin on European security
and the "struggle against Fascism."
April 22 Communist-front World Peace Council
to convene in Copenhagen to consider
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developments in Chile and Viatnum.
late April Vice Chairman Saddam Hussayn of
Iraq may visit Moscow.
PLO leader Yasir Arafat ma visit
Moscow.
May 9 USSR and its allies to mark their
observance of the 30th anniversary
of V-E Day. Yugoslav V-E Day parade
to feature now armament;.
May 14 Warsaw Pact member-states to obsorve
the 20th anniversary of its formation.
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