SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001400110001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 22, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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USSR-Angola: All the Way with the MPLA. .
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High-Level Yugoslav Delegation
Plan Visit to Peking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Another Vacancy in Soviet
Cultural Bureaucracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CHRONOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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USSR-Angola: All the Way with the MPLA
Recent substantial Soviet arms deliveries to the
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and
harsher press treatment of the rival National Front
indicate that Moscow is more firmly casting its lot
with the Movement.
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The Soviet press has consistently accorded spe-
cial praise to the Movement, but until recently it
avoided direct attacks on the other liberation groups.
In the wake of the recent fighting in Luanda, however,
the press has charged that the National Front is a
client of Peking and the US, and has labeled it a "re-
actionary organization," whose members are "culprits
for the death of hundreds of people."
Moscow probably still has not written off the
prospect of a coalition government emerging in Angola.
With the Popular Movement now enjoying a clear mili-
tary advantage, however, the Soviets appear to have
rising expectations that the Movement will have the
dominant post-independence role.
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High-Level Yugoslav Delegation
Plans Visit to Pe ing
Premier Bijedic and Stane Dolanc, Tito's right-
hand man in the party, are the leading luminaries in
a party and state delegation that reportedly will
"secretly" visit Peking this fall following talks in
Mongolia.
he dates of
the visits have not yet been announced, but Belgrade
hopes the delegation will be able to raise bilateral
party and government relations with Peking to the
level of existing economic ties
lyugosiavia-s continued
promotion ot nonalignment, particularly in Asia, is
the chief obstacle to improved bilateral relations.
Tito, Dolanc, and Edvard Kardelj, a
ong-time adviser to Tito, want a rapid improvement
in Yugoslav-Chinese ties.
A visit to Peking by Bijedic would balance talks
the Yugoslav Premier has held in Washington and Mos-
cow since the first of the year. Bijedic had been
scheduled to visit China after his talks in the Krem-
lin in April, but the trip was postponed.
Belgrade and Peking have long tended to hold
each other at arm's length, particularly where inter-
party matters are concerned, and the Chinese party
still refuses to open party ties with the Yugoslav
Communists. A visit to China of the high-level Yugo-
slav delegation could easily improve state-to-state
ties, but raising inter-party relations to the present
level of economic ties promises to be a much more
difficult process. Among the major differences be-
tween the two parties is the relatively decentralized
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Yugoslav system of "self-management" which. in-
volves worker participation in the administration
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Another Vacancy in Soviet Cultural Bureaucracy
Tass announced on July 18 that Deputy Minister
of Culture Zinaida M. Kruglova has been named chair-
man of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship
and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Krug-
lova vacates a post which she assumed only last No-
vember, shortly after the appointment of candidate
Politburo member Petr Demichev as minister of culture.
Until last fall, Kruglova had been party sec-
retary for ideology in the Leningrad Oblast party
committee, where she conformed to Leningrad's long-
standing reputation for toughness and orthodoxy in
cultural and ideological affairs. Her appointment
to the Ministry of Culture was thus viewed by some
Soviet intellectuals as an effort to balance Demi-
chev's more pragmatic approach.
During her short tenure at the ministry, Krug-
lova has had virtually no publicity. This will prob-
ably change with her new job which, though as gen-
erally powerless as that of a deputy culture minister,
carries considerably more prestige and an opportunity
for international public relations.
The 52-year-old Kruglova takes over her new post
from Nina V. Popova, 67, who is retiring. Popova's
rank as full member of the Central Committee may be
given to Kruglova at the next party congress in Feb-
ruary. Kruglova is now a member of the Central Audit-
ing Commission, a rank she attained by virtue of her
former party post in Leningrad.
No replacement has yet been named for Kruglova
in the ministry. If this does not occur soon, it
will add one more to the growing number of vacancies
in the party and government cultural/propaganda ap-
paratus. The most important of these is Demichev's
former post of party secretary for culture and prop-
aganda, which he relinquished at the December 1974
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Central Committee plenum. The leadership's failure
to fill this and related lesser posts has resulted
in an ad hoc approach to cultural affairs, charac-
terized by arbitrariness and drift against a back-
ground of a general, but often inconsistent, crack-
down on nonconformism.
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CHRONOLOGY
July 15 Romania signs a second agreement with
the IAEA concerning the US supply of
enriched uranium to Romania for a
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departs for the USSR "on holiday."
Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft are
Czechoslovak party/state chief Husak
ExIm Bank announces a credit of
nearly $2 million to Poland for the
purchase of US equipment for a copper
mill in Poland.
RSFSR Su reme Soviet convenes in
was received by party chief Gierek.
an official visit to Poland, where he
UK Foreign Secretary Callaghan concludes
visit to Tanzania.
Yugoslav party secretary Dolanc stops
in Cairo on his way to an official
July 16 Mongolian Defense Minister Dorj, head-
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ing a military delegation, arrives
Hungary for an official visit.
Romania lifts the 13-day state of
emergency it declared in order to cope
with the nation's worst flooding since
1970.
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July 17 MBFR negotiations at Vienna recess for
two months.
Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft dock.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ho Tam
begins a five-day official visit to
Yugoslavia.
Soviet party delegation concludes a
Visiting Jordanian Crown Prince Hasan
concludes official talks with Romanian
leaders.
July 18 Soviet officials grant Mrs. Sakharov,
the wife of the dissident physicist,
a three-month visa for treatment of
her eye troubles in Italy.
US and the USSR conclude in Washington
the latest round of talks on their
Pacific ocean fisheries problems.
July 19 Peruvian Foreign Minister De La Flor
Valle begins a three-day, official
visit to Yugoslavia.
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July 19 Soviets release two Japanese fishing
boats seized on July 16.
July 20 Politburo candidate-member Romanov,
the party chief of Lenin rad, tours
Dresden, East Germany.
Visiting Bulgarian party/state chief
Zhivkov meets with Turkish Prime
Minister Demirel.
July 21 The Soyuz spacecraft returns to Earth
safely.
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Politburo member Kirilenko leads at-
tendees at Moscow's observance of the
31st anniversary of the "Polish People's
Republic."
a plenum meeting to discuss progress
in prefulfillment of the economic
plan and relief measures to cope with
the recent flooding.
Soviet Deputy Premier Lesechko arrives
in Bulgaria for talks on bilateral eco-
nomic cooperation.
July 22 An Egyptian delegation led by Finance
Minister Ismail flies to Moscow for
talks on financial matters including
debt rescheduling.
July 24 French Prime Minister Chirac to begin
an official, five-day visit to Romania.
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July 26 President Ford to leave on a. European
trip to include state visits to
Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia as
well as attendance at the summit-level
finale to CSCE in Helsinki.
July 26 or 27 Turkish opposition leader Ec:evit to
begin a visit to Bucharest at the
invitation of Romanian President
Ceausescu.
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July 30 Summit-level finale to CSCE to commence
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President Ford to begin a two-day
state visit to Romania.
August 3 President Ford to begin a two-day
late August Yugoslav Foreign Minister Minic to
attend the conference of nonaligned
foreign ministers at Lima, Peru.
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