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AMEMBASSY BELGRADE 
AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 
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AMEMBASSY WARSAW AHEMBASSY PARIS 
AHEMBASSY TRIPOLI 
AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST 
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OF CZECH LEADERS WHO REQUESTED INTERVENTION11 SOVIET AMB 
ALLEGEDLY UNABLE TO REPLY• CLAIMED HIS INFO LIMlTED 
TO · CONTENTS OF NO!E. POLES ANO SUL.GAR I ANS . 'EAST GERMANS ANO 
HUNGARIANS NOT REPRESENfEO) DEFENDED · THEIR COUNTRIES• PARTI• 
C~P~TION ON GROUNDS THAT CZECH ~OMRADES REQUESTED THEJR HE~P 
BUT PROFESSED · IGNORANCE OF ANY DETAILS• YUGOSLAVE AMB INDIGNANT 
RYOVER DEVELOPMENTS AS WAS ROMANIAN CHARGE WHO EXPRESSED FEAR 
THAT HIS COUNTR!'f MIGHT BE ! SOVIET'S NEXT TARGET F'OR WHIPP I NG INTO LINE• TUNISIAN AMBASSADORS MOSCOW AND BELGRADE HERE · 
ON LEAVE ORDERED RETURN THEIR POSTS IMMED1ATELLY• 
3• TODAY'S TUNISIAN PRESS FULLY DEVOTED To · CZECH · CRIS1S WITH 
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SHARP· EDITORIALS IN ALL1FOUR PAPERS. CONDEMNING SOVIET ACflON• 
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S STATEMENT HE~DLINED AND FULL TEXT CARRIED IN PRESS• ALSO GV RAOIO•TV ALONG WITH SIGNIFICANT PORTION 
BALL : SE CUR ITV COUNCIL ST ATEMENT • 
~· COMMENT• NOTWITHSTANDING SIGNtFlCANT SOVIET ANO BULGARIAN 
ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND · TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROJECTS1 WE 
ANTlCUMATE PRESIDENT BOURGUIBA WILL 1PUBLtCL~ CONDEMN INTER­
VENTION IN INTERNAL CZECH AFFAIRS· STRONGL~ ANO ENDORSE 
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S DEMAND FOR WITHDRAWAL OF SOVIET TROOPS• 
POLICE PROTECTION AT SOVtET1POLISM, ANO BULGARIAN 
EMBASSIES INCREASED SINCE YESTERD~Y MORNING' AL,HOUGH NO 
DEMONSTRATIONS EXPECTED AT LEAST. FOR THE PRESENT• CZECH 
AMS RECEIVING EXPRESSIONS OF' SYMPATHY FROM OFFICIAL ANO PR~VATE TUNISIANS ANO HIS EMS NO~ UNDER GUARD, GP~3 
MULC~HY