SURVEY OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

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• Publication Date: April 9, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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9 APRIL 197
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broadcast and press media. It Is published
by FBIS without coordination with other U.S.
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within the meaning of Title 18, sections 793
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CONFillLN'i'TAL C~'B:CU SURVEY
9 AE'RIL 19'(O
CONTENTS
L'HUMANITE Scores Yugoslav Journals' Support for Roger Garaudy 3
Economic Discipline Campaign Produces Meager Results 5
Signs of Contention During and Following December Plenum
No Dismissals So Far for Plenum-related Shortcomings
County-leval Young Communist League Committee Estsblished 11
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EAST-WEST RELATIONS
USSi: CRIT2CAL OF U,S. ARMS DECISIONS ON EVE OF SALT
A continuing low volume of Moscow comment sustains the USSR's attack
on U,S, plans for moving forward with the second phase o:f' the
Safeguard A.i3M system and multiple independently targeted reentry
vehicles (MIRV's). As in the pas L?, Secrst;ary Laird is singled uut
as the r_hief' spokesman of the forces advocating deployment. TASS
on 4 April, for exa-nple, observes that Laird in a recent interview
"again favored an accelerated pace of manufacturing and stationing
of new types of American offensive strategic weapons." TASS
quotes him as saying that the United States will begin deploying
land-based MIRV's in June and will follow this by fitting out
submarines with MIRV's,
`i'wo domestic service conunentaries on the 5th--by Cheperov and
Ignatyev--also note Laird's remarks on plans for land- and submarine-
based MIRV's and question the meaning of the decisions on the
weapons "on the eve" of the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT)
which will begin on 16 April. TYie Ignatyev commentary goes on to
note the "constructive and reassuring attitude" of the USSR toward
the talks and concludes thwt "good will" must be demonstrated by
both. sides t~ assure agreement? (Podgornyy in an interview
published on 6 April in Tokyo's YOMIURI--but apparently not
carried by Soviet media--cited tY!.e "limitation of the strategic
arms race" as one of several disarmamen+. measures "ripe for
solution," but he did not mention the upcoming talks,)
The third issue of the ,journal USA; ECONOMICS, POT,ITICS, AND
I'~EOLOGY--signed to the press on 11 March--carries articles by
V. Larionov and A. KY:lebnikov voicing concern over pressures in
the Unii~~~d States for stepped-up weapons development while
preparati~~ns are being made for SALT. The Larioiiov article,
which discusses at considerable length the on-going debate in
Washington over ABM's and MIRV's, says that a choice must be
made between the continuing of the former policy of building up
armaments a.nd exacerbating international tension and the seeking
of paths toward mutually acceptable agreements. In Larionov's
words, this choice is becoming particularly vital with SALT
approaching and "in this sense it is difficult to overestimate the
importance of the victory of one or another of tine opposing
forces in the United States which are participating in the
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~t~.rutegi:: debates." Khlebnikov's o?rticle, treating the broad
question of U.S.-Soviet relations, cites the U.S, press for. the
upinion that the "feverish efforts" Lo launch new weapons
programs on the eve of the Vienna talks "are something in the
nature of a diplomatic maneuver designed to insure for the United
States more favorable positions at the negotiations." Tf this is
the case, the author observes, "these maneuvers by no means
testify to the farsightedness of American policy."
Moscow continues to publicize calls in the United States for a
freeze on deployment of ABM's and MIRV's. The domestic service
oil +,he 9th, for example, reports that former presidential adviser
McGeorge Bundy the day before recommended to a Senate Foreign
Relations Committee subcommittee on disarmament that the United
States suspend "development of Safeguard and MIRV's" as a means
of creating "favorable prerequisites" for the Vienna talks.
`PASS on 8 April says that Senate Democrats have recommended
Senate approval of the pending resolution on "halting further
deployment of nuclear weapons systems" and have suggested that
President Nixon submit such an "initiative" at Vienna. And TASS
on 6 April reports that the non?-governmental American Assembly
on Arms Limitation hae urged the President to delay for at least
six months MIRV deplo~~ment and postpone the second phase of
Sa.f'eguard.
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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST RELATIONS
L' f IUMANI'1'I~; SCURF S ~'UGOSLAV JOUIUJAI.~S' SUPPOf'T 1-'OIZ I~OGIJf~ GAl?,AUDY'
Expressions of support in the Yugoslav press for French communist
dissident Roger Gu.raudy's challenge to ideological orthodoxy
fLppear to be causing embarrassment to the French Conununist Party
(PCF). An editorin.l irr the PCF organ L'11Ub1ANTTE on 3 April,
responding to "slanders" against the party published in the
Belgrade weekly NIN and the Zagreb cu:tural weekly SPEI,yk was tranai'erred
i;c thr, post oi' IiSI~'SR first deputy procurement :ninistcrr (I'RAVlln,
30 December)--rt, dc:,,otion but not a disgrace, nlthouCrh agriculturra,l
shortcomings in Smolensk herd been exposed a year earlier, there
hc,,s been na direct criticism of 1Calmyk's lcadership.~'
1~RAVDA on 15 Js.nuary artnounce.d V.G, Baka,yev's replacement as
Merchant Marine Minister and, on 1b January V.P. 7,~tov's replace-
ment as f~'ood Industx?y Minister. Bakayev eras 6#3 and Zotov 71,
howeve:?, and both were retired on pension (see `i'RUD and IZULS'i'TYA) ;
r.o cri ticisnr of their leadership has been publ:i.shed,
`.Cho most set?ious attacks on specific leaders and organizations
occurred in Febt"nary, but no casualties have been reported. The
Central Committee condemned. the leaders of Voronezh oblast and
cif the meat and dairy industry ministry for failures expressly
associated with the December plenum--the first such charges--but
these leaders have been permitted to acknowledge their shortcomings
acrd promise 'to improve.
A 3 February SOVIET RUSSIA editorial assailed the Voronezh bureau
for poor agricultural leadership, and PRAVDA and RURAL LTF'E on
22 February revealed. that the Central Committee had recently heard
a report by the Voronezh leaders and had adopted a resolution
declaring it unsatisfactory. The press on 22 February reported
a. Voronezh plenum where the oblast leadex?s admitted their errors .
A 19 February SOCIALIST INDUSTRY editorial reported a Central
Committee attack on the leadership of the meat and dairy industry
ministry. Because the decree was only a Central Committee decree
instead of a ,joint Central Committee-Council of Ministers decree,
technically it was a condemnation of the work of the ministry's
party committee, which is responsible to the Central Committee.
But the decree also condemned the "serious omissions" by the
ministry's leaders and censured the party committee for not report-
ing to the Central Comrni~ttee the shortcomings of certain
See FBI5 SURVEY for 15 January 1970 , pp 22-25
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ministerial officials "regardless of their posts," On 22 February
PRAVDA rFported a meeting of the ministry's party members where
the "correct" conclusions were drawn and some members of 'the
ministry's collegittm were attacked. A 25 February PRAVDA e3itorial
cited the decree ae an object lesson for all ministry party
committees and stressed the need for party committees to play a
bigger role in their ministries.
`rhe RSFSR Council of Ministers also began harshly censuring local
authorities for violations of economic discipline, attacking the
~1'omsk executive committee for neglecting checking (SOVIET RUSSIA,
4 February) and the Kursk executive committee for disrupting
deliveries (SOVIET RUSSIA, 18 March). No punishment has been
announced so far in these cases either.
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CUNF':LllUN'1'TAL I~'BIS SURVI~Y
9 APRIL 1970
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COMMUNIST CHINA
COCMrIY-LLVI;I~ YOUNG COMMUNIST LL.,AGUE COMMITTLIJ LSTEll3LISHED
On 5 April ![arbin radio broadcast several items of reportage on
1:,h.c formation of the lIulin county committee of the Young Communist
League (YCL) under the leadership and discipline of the local
parry structure, A1~:hough the rebuilding of the YCL was
specifically ordered in last year's 1. July point editorial from
Peking, on the ~~Oth anniversary cf the CCP, this is the first
official report on establishment of a county or higher-level
YCL committee since 'the Ninth CCP Congress ended. In fact, only
Na.nlcing has pz?eviously claimed concrete progress in rebuilding
the league? On 11 September last yeaa.? Nanking radio reported
on a newly established YCL branch for a production brigade in
Kiangsu province.
lIulin county includes the Chenpao island area, and the propaganda
makes the point, succinctly, that this first YCL county committee
in Heilungkiang has been established in the nation's "outliost
against revisionism." Hulin was also the first county in
lieilungkiang to set up a CCP committee, on 9 February. The CCP
committee, it is reported, l;_ovideu leadership in rebuilding the
lIulin YCL committee in order to prevent the youth "from departing
from the leadership of the party and becoming independent," The
actual organizational work was carried out by the county party
core group, which made arrangements and conducted investigations.
After five months of work, "YCL organizations of many basic units
have been comprehensively established" and the YCL county
committee formed.
'rhe leadership role of the lIulin county party committee over the
YCI~ was spelled out in an article by the party committee which
portrayed. the YCL, in precultural revolution terms, as an
organization under full control of senior party cadres and
dedicated to the proper upbringing of potential cadres.
A member of the Hulin county party committee standing committee
o~ill be responsible for YCL organization in the county and will
coordinate league tasks on the party commit,tee's working agenda,
receive reports on league work, and visit basic league organizations
"to sum up and popularize their working experiences."
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Local party units are to exercise leadership over league cadres
by giving "them a free hand in their work to enable them to dare
to bear responsibility" but to "control them in practice to enable
t;hem to develop" under the guidance of the party's political line.
League work is to be linked with the party's central task, while
also allowing "independent activities for the young people
according to their special characteristics." Party committees
must, however, provide training and education for league members
and "lead the YCL organizations to educate the league members and
other young people" on class struggle so they will grow into
acceptable "revolutionary" successors.
Delegates from the CCP Heilungkiang provincial core group and the
Provincial Revolutionary Committee attended the first plenary
session of the YCL committee. A HEILUNGKIANG DAILY editorial
termed the new committee "a major event" in the political life of
league members in the province and called for continued "open-door
league consolidation" in conjunction with further building of the
CCP,
Central media have made no mention so far of the Hulin county YCL
committee.
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