SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 23, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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SOVIET UNION - EASTERN EUROPE
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the USSR - Eastern Europe Division, Office of Current Intel-
ligence, with occasional contributions from other offices within the
Directorate of Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should
be directed to the authors of the individual articles.
October 23, 1975
Soviets Again Express Interest
in Indian Ocean Arms Control. . . . . . . . . . 1
The "Other" Soviet Nobel
Prize Winner Is Praised . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Soviet Military Aid Feeler to Indonesia
Poland: Police Act
Against Black Marketeers. . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Soviets Again Express Interest
in Indian Ocean Arms Control
Moscow is again hinting that it might be will-
ing to engage in bilateral talks on Indian Ocean
naval limitations. On October 16, the head of the
USA Institute, Georgy Arbatov, told Congressman
Vanik that General Secretary Brezhnev personally
supported talks on the issue. Arbatov said that
last July Brezhnev would have endorsed talks if the
subject had come up during the General Secretary's
meeting with the congressional delegation led by
Senators Humphrey and Scott.
The Senators were in Moscow at the time of the
congressional debate on appropriations for the ex-
pansion of Diego Garcia, and when the Senators first
broached the subject with lower level Soviet offi-
cials, the Soviets were evasive. Party secretary
and candidate politburo member Ponomarev, for ex-
ample, responded to the Senators' queries by list-
ing Soviet arms control proposals dating back to
1946 and accusing the US of trying to justify a
huge buildup just because the USSR had sailed into
the Indian Ocean.
Several days later, however, Arbatov told one
of the Senators that the Soviets were "of course"
interested in talking to the US about naval limita-
tions in the Indian Ocean. Arbatov gave no indi-
cation, however, that he had checked first with
Brezhnev.
Despite the view attributed to Brezhnev, Mos-
cow clearl is not ushin to get negotiations
started
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On October 17, two other members of the USA Insti-
tute told DIA Director Graham that Soviet policy on
this question was "unclear."
The USA officials confirmed, however, that
Arbatov's remarks to the US Senators in July had
the "highest clearance." They reminded General
Graham that the Soviets had taken "small private
steps before" toward the US and that the US had not
responded. This is probably a reference to an ex-
change in 1971 when Moscow first broached the idea
of a joint understanding limiting naval deployments
in the Indian Ocean, but never followed up when the
US responded four months later. Moscow's failure
to do so suggests that the USSR's arms control ad-
vocates encountered considerable ucratic re-
sistance.
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The "Other" Soviet Nobel
Prize Winner Is Praise
The first Soviet press reaction to the co-award
of the Nobel economics prize to academician Leonid
Kantorovich indicates that the regime has decided to
look kindly at Kantorovich's new prominence even
while it continues its campaign against Nobel Peace
Prize winner Andrey Sakharov.
On October 22, two days after the chief editor
of the writers union weekly Literary Gazette blasted
Sakharov at a public press conference in Moscow, the
journal published a flattering interview with
Kantorovich that played up his academic work and
implied that the regime approved his Nobel prize.
This treatment probably presages approval for
Kantorovich to travel to Stockholm for the December
10 award ceremony.
Kantorovich, a reform-minded but officially
respected member of the establishment, shares the
Nobel award with Dutch-born US economist Koopmans,
with whom he cooperated in his work. Kantorovich
is quoted, in the interview as stressing the con-
tinuity of his work since 1939 and the applicability
of his concepts of optimum allocation of resources
to both capitalist and socialist economies. He made
obeisance to the role of the party and to Marxist-
Leninist precepts, and noted that the 24th CPSU Con-
gress of 1971 called for the "wider use of economic-
mathematical methods" in national economic planning.
The regime's choice of the same vehicle--
Literary Gazette--for juxtaposing its praise of
Kantorovich with direct attacks on Sakharov emphasizes
the sharp difference Moscow sees in the implications
of the two Nobel awards. The Kremlin probably be-
lieves that decoupling Kantorovich's Nobel prize from
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the problem of Sakharov will give it greater leeway
in deciding how to resolve the latter issue.
Sakharov, who said last Monday that he has applied
for a round-trip visa to the peace prize presentation
ceremony in Oslo--also on December 10--is probably
now most anxious to see whether his wife will be
permitted to return home at the end of the month
after eye surgery in Italy. The answer could give a
clue as to how Moscow intends to handle the case of
the dissident physicist.
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Soviet Military Aid Feeler to Indonesia
Moscow has broached the subject of military
aid with Indonesia for the first time in years.
The Soviet bid was rejected, as the Soviets doubt-
less anticipated it would be, but it is symptomatic
of Moscow's desire for better relations.
oscow as prove a no
military aid to Indonesia since 1965; Indonesia
now gets all of its military assistance from the
West.
Moscow may have been encouraged to act because
there has been a modest improvement in relations
over the past year. Indonesia's Foreign Minister
Malik visited Moscow last December and signed a
general economic aid agreement--the USSR's first
with the Suharto re ime.
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Poland: Police Act
Against B ac Mar eteers
In an apparent effort to squelch the activities
of black marketeers and hoarders, police officials
in Katowice last month reportedly raided an open air
market and c illion zloty.
he police
oun substantial quantities of stolen goods and
arrested "numerous" individuals.
There have been no other reports of police raids
in Poland. Local Polish officals will undoubtedly
take decisive action against the most blatant, but
Polish authorities have long tolerated sub rosa
marketing activities and a harsh clampdown would
only increase current tension.
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