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R 221450Z AUG 68 
FM AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI 
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3105 
INFO AMEMBASSY BENGHAZI 
AMEMBASSY BAIDA 

UNCLAS TRIPOLI 4568 
• JOINT EMBASSY/USIS MESSAGE 
1• TRIPOLI AUGUST 22 •OFFICIAL DAILY AL AL~M TODAY 
CALLED ON ALL COUNTRIES TO MAKE EFFORTS WITMIN UN AND 
OUTSIDE TO SAVE WORLD PEACE (#) 

OF CZECHSOLOVAKIAe ALAM DECLARED "AGGRESSION NO MATTER WHAT THE EXCUSE VIOLATES UN CHARTER AND IS IN CONTRAVENTION INTERNATIONAL PRACrICES•" "WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY WAS FLAGRANT INFRINGEMENr OF SOVEREIGNTY OF ClECHOLSOLVAKIA AND SERIOUS THRE~T TO WORLD PE~CE AND SECURITY•" ALAM SUGGESTED TMAT ClECHOSLOVAKIA•S OEVtATtON FROM WARSAW PACT POLICIES OOES NO~ JUSTlF~ Mlt!TA•V INT£RVENTION BY OTHER P~C~ MEMBERS IN IN"!RN~L AFV~IRS OF THAT COUNTRY• 
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QUIET . ACCOMPANYING RISING OF SUN IN BEAUTIFUL SKY OF TMAT 
COUNTRY"• AL YOYM EXPRESSED VIEW1 "FOR THE SAKE OF MORALITY AND WORLD PEACE, WE CONSIDER MILITARY INTEVEN1ION BY SOVIETS AND THEIR ALLIES DANGEROUS STEP AND INHUMAN! 
ACTION AGAINST A PEOPLE THAT WANTS TO DETERMINE ITS . DESTINY BY ITSELF AND TO WORK OUT WAY OF LIFE IT DESIRES•" 
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3• ARAB NATIONALIST/SOCIALIST INDEPENDENT DAI~Y1 ARRAicr1 DECLARED "OCCUPATION OF CZECHOSLOAKIA BY SOVIETS AND THEJR ALLIES IS DANGEROUS PRECEDENr ANO SHOULD BE DEP~ORE6 8¥ ALL FREE PEOPLE OF WORLD WHO BELIEVE THAT USE OF FO~CE· IS DIRECT THREAT TO SECURITY OF PEOPLES ANO lNFRINGEME~T OF THEIR DIGNITY AND SOVEREIGNTY~" HOWEVER~EOITORIAL' ASKED1 "WHERE WERE SO•CALLED FREE WORLD COUNTRIES •• ALL1ES OF US WHICH CONSIDER SOVIET INTERVENTION DANGEROUS ACT ON 
AND FLAT VIOLATrON OF PEACE ANO ~REEDOM •• WHEN ISRAE~· INTERVENED MILITARILY1 OCCUPIED ARAB TERRJTORIES1 THRE~ A PEOPLE OUT OF ITS HOMELAND~ KILLED THOUSANDS1 ANO DESTROYED VILLAGES, MOSQUES1 HOSPITALS AND HOUSES7 WHERE 
WAS THE wORLD THAT REACTED IMMEDIATELY TO sOVIEr INTERVENTION BUT DID NOTkING AG~INST ISRAEL'S AGGRESSION? IS THERE DIFFERENCE BETWEENCZECH0SL0VAK!A ANO PALESTINE?" CUNNINGHAM 
NOTE• l~I OMISSION• CORRECTION TO FOLLOW• 
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