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2o NEUES DEUTSCHLAND REPORTED A "FLOOD" OF SUPPORTING MESSAGES FROM THE GDR POPULATION• 
3• ON BOTH DAYS THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS BASED -ON WESTERN SOURCES THAT THE US AND NATO WILL DO NOTHINGo 
•• AN NO LEAD EDITORIAL ON THE 23RO ADMITS TMAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME RESISTANCE• 
So THERE IS NO INDICATION OF OPPOSITION BY OTHER COMMUNIST PIAIU1ESe 
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60 THE MAIN THEME HAS BEEN THAT IMPERIALISM HAS BEEN DEALT A CRUSHING BLOW1 "SOCIALISM IN THE CSSR IS INVIOL~BLE AND AL~O HEREo DON'T TOUCH IT OR YOUR HOUR WILL COMEI" 
7o NO ALSO REPORTS THAT CSSR AND OTHER EE NATIONALS STRANDED lN THE GOR ARE BEING PROVIDED FOR1 INCLUDING FINANCIAL 
ASSISTANCE WHEN NECESSARY, AND THAT THE SAME IS TRUE OF GOR 
CITIZENS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA• 
8. SUPPORT FOR THE INVASION IS REPORTED FROM HANOI AND SOME OTW£R CPS~ INCLUDING THE US PARTYo 
9Q COMMENT• AS IS INDICATED BY THE HIGHLIGH~S MENTIONED AIOYE1 THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE PREDICTABLE EAST GERMAN LINE•
TME COYER~GE APPEARS TO BE DESIGNED TO GIVE AS MUCH RE~SSURANCE TO THE POPULATION AS POSSIBLE THAT THEY NEED NOT BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SITUATION• THIS SEEMS TO BE REINFORCED BV 'H[ FIACT THAT NO ALSO FRONT•PAGES AS MUCH FAVORABLE NEWS As rT C•N1 P~R,ICUL~RLY ON THE WELL•BEING OF THE GDR ~ATlONAL ECONOM¥• TMROUQH ONE P•M• TOOAY1 THE SAME L~NE WAS BEttNG FOLLOWED ON 
D ~010• AL~HOUGH THE ONE P•Mt BROADCAST DID D~scuss IN MORE 
DETllL ClECH OPPOStTlON1 BUT THEN TURNED TO A FAVbRlBLE 
R 0 ~ ON TME H~RVEST• 
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