SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001600280002-4
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 27, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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SOVIET UNION - EASTERN EUROPE
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Yugoslavia
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Setting the Stage
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Poland: C
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Soviet Comment On Portugal
The most recent Soviet commentary on Portugal
shows a slight increase in rhetorical intensity and
expressions of concern, but does not develop any
new positions.
Amplifying earlier Soviet criticism of Western
interference in Portugal, today's Pravda notes that
the Soviet people "watch with alarm" Western machina-
tions in the country. Western companies and economic
organizations are now accused of mounting a virtual
economic boycott against Portugal. The CIA is again
dragged in and Peking is attacked more forcefully.
Whereas previously the Chinese were accused of inter-
fering in Angola and the Azores, the latest Soviet
article asserts that they are also putting pressure
on the Portuguese Cortununists.
The Soviets still seem concerned primarily with
rebutting Western charges that they are interfering
in Portugal, rather than laying a foundation for
deeper involvement. Pravda again cites the European
Security Conference, rhetorically questioning whether
alleged Western actions in Portugal are compatible
with CSCE principles, but reiterates the view that
Portugal's fate should be decided by the Portuguese
themselves.
The Soviets again draw a parallel between the
present situation in Portugal and conditions in
Chile before the overthrow of Allende, but strike
a somewhat more defiant note. In a broadcast yester-
day a Soviet commentator asserted that "Portugal
must not be another Chile." Calling again for unity
of "progressive" forces, he added a new wrinkle by
warning Portuguese Socialist leader Soares that the
Socialists will not be spared if "reaction" triumphs.
While the Soviets seemed somewhat more belli-
gerent in the context of Chile, they may have balanced
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this by showing relative moderation :)n another sub-
ect. In reporting the alliance that the Portuguese
,ommunists have formed with seven leftist groups,
whey described it as "set up to orgarzize a joint
rebuff to reaction" and have not yet' repeated
unhal's statement that the new from would carry
gut "offensive action" against group!; to its politi-
ight.
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Yugoslavia: Setting the Stage
for Controversy at Lima
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Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milos Minic opened
the debate at the Lima meeting of nonaligned foreign
ministers on Tuesday by taking controversial posi-
tions that included rejection of Arab proposals to
expel or exclude Israel from the UN.
Minic argued against the Syrian resolution on
Israel by asserting that the UN charter should be
observed in seeking any sanctions against Israel.
He made it plain, however, that Belgrade believes
Tel Aviv is illegally occupying Arab land and is
thereby continuing the Middle East crisis. Minic
recommended the Geneva conference as a useful means
of accelerating a "comprehensive solution" to the
situation. He also repeated Yugoslav interest in
forming a nonaligned group to maintain pressure on
Israel.
In other sensitive areas, Minic chided the oil-
producing countries for failing to "allocate part of
their financial resources" for Third World develop-
ment projects and called for the creation of a
' system of mutual assistance for Third World coun-
tries who face a threat to their security. He also
made a bid for prestige among the growing Latin
American contingent by calling on Washington to quit
its military bases in the Caribbean and Latin America
and to leave the Panama Canal to Panama.
-3, UN General Assembly on the theme of disarmament.
Minic said the nonaligned should unite behind a
Yugoslav proposal for a world disarmament conference
or, failing that, support a special session of the
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Poland; Consumer Price Increases
Warsaw has announced price increases of from
17 to 70 percent on cigarettes, apparently to ease
the burden of paying higher prices to producers of
tobacco and basic foodstuffs. The higher cigarette
prices will cover two thirds of the cost of the
higher procurement prices on tobacco, hogs, and
milk. The government boosted prices paid to farmers
for these products early this month in an effort to
stimulate domestic production and to halt a shift
to more profitable types of farming.
Retail prices for pork and milk were not raised
because of party leader Gierek's freeze on basic
food prices. The US embassy in Warsaw believes
that the government may continue this freeze in 1976.
The government apparently continues to feel that
raising basic food prices would be politically
dangerous. The regime will likely raise prices of
less essential consumer goods, however, to meet
mounting food subsidies and to reduce excess pur-
chasing power.
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