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MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA• 
~. "IN RECENT PERIOD, THE PCF CENTRAL COMMlTTEE STATED IT CONSIDERED THAT PROBLEMS AR IS I NG · BETWEEN COMMUN I ST ' PART I ES SHOULD BE EXAMINED AND RESOLVED THROUGH FRATERNAL DISCUSSIONS DURING BILATERAL AND MUL~ILATERAL. MEETINGS, BOJH WITH RESPECT FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF EACH COUNTRY, OF THE FREE DETERMINATION OF EACH PARTY, AND IN THE SPIRIT. OF PROLE~ARIAN INTERNATIONALISM• 
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5~ "OUR PARTY, WHICH HAD EXPRESSED ITS PREOCCUPATION WITH CERTAIN ASPECTS OF CZECHOSLOVAK REALITY, HAD AFFIRMED EQUALLY THAT IT WAS INCUMBENT UPON CZECH COMMUNIST PARTY TO ACT AGAINST ANTIQSOCIALIST ELEMENTS IN ORDER PRESERVE AND ENLARGE SOCIALIST CONQUESTS• THE PCF HAS NOT CEASED TO FIGHT IN THIS SENSE IN MAKING KNOWN ITS OPPOSITION TO ANY MILITARY INTERVENTION COMING FROM THE EXTERIOR BOTH IN DECISIONS OF ITS POLITBURO AND COMMITTEE AND TO CPSU ' AND CZECH · COMMUNIST PARTY• 
6. "POLITBURO HAS DECIDED TO CONVOKE AN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION 
OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE•" 
7• ACCORDING MININTERIOR SOURCE, EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW MORNING, AUG 22• 
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