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AUTOo POLICE APPEARED UNUSUALLY SLOW TO INTERVENE• MEANWHlLE FAR LEFT WING ARG UNIV FEDERATION REPORTEDLY HELD BOARD MEETING TO CONCIDER POSITION ON CZECH EVENTSo PRESS SECRETARY FOR CGT PASEO COLON FACTION (DE LUCAl SAID ARG LABOR DENOUNCED SOVIET INTERVENTION "JUST AS IT DENOUNCED US INTERVENTION IN SANTO DOMINGOo" (THIS ONLY PUBLIC REFERENCE TO SANTO DOMINGO WE AWARE OF SO FAR1 BUT SEEMS LIKELY L~FTlST THEME IN DAYS AHEADo ) 
4Q EAR LY EDITORIAL REACTION• (A) CONSERVATIVE LA NACION SAID MOVE DEMONSTRATED -"SOVIET FASCISM" AND COMMUN!SM•S INCOMPATIBILITY WITH POLITICAL FREEDOM. SAW IN SOV ACTION BREZHNEV TRIUMPH OVER KOSYGIN IN SOV INTERNAL COUNCILSo lBI CLARI~ CALLED INVOCATION OF WARSAW PACT 00 JURD I CALL y FALSE AND MOR ALL y ODIOUS" I APPROVED DEGAULLE STATEMENT THAT' USSR HAD SHOWN IT HAD NOT ABANDONEb POLICY OF "BLOCS"s AND OBSRVED THAT SOVIETS STILL APPREHENSIVE ABOUT SECURITY IN EUROPE• SAID USSR KNEW BEFOREHAND THAT US RESPONSE WOULD BE "MEASURED" AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL IMAGE WOULD SUFFER SERIOUS REVERSEo CONCLUDED~ WORLD PEACE WOULD NOT BE DISRUPTED AND 
DISINTEGRATION OF BLOCS WOULD GO ON• 
5~ IN PRESS INTERVIEW1 PROF HAROLAV ZOUREK1 IDENTIFIED AS CZECH DELEGATE TO UPCOMING INTERNATL LAW ASSN CONF HERE1 AT LOSS TO UNDERSTAND ATTITUDE 
OF WARSAW PACT SIGNATORIES, PARTICULARLY ON EVE CP CENTRAL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS. OTHERWISE NONCOMMITTAL· 
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