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FM ~MEMBASSY VIENNA 
TO ?ECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4941 

UNCLAs VIENNA 6094 
JOINT EMBASSY/USIS MESSAGE 
• AUSTRIAN MEDIA REACTION TO CZECH INVASION 
I• NEwS SOVIFT INVASION CZECHOSLOVAKIA REACHED VIEN~A TOO LATE MAKE MORNING PAPERS• SEVERAL P~PERS UNUSUAL MOVE ~AN S~ECIAL EDITIONS. NOONERS SOCIALIST EXPRE~S, INDEPENDENT <U IER CARRiED 
AN~ER HEADLiNES1 EXTENSIV~ COVERAGE. KU~!ER HEAD SAID, "VIOL~NCE RUL~S IN OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTRY•" 
2• EXPRESS EDITORIAL ENTITLtD "A BLACK DAY1" SAID• "NOBODY IMA§INED SOVIETS CAPABLE O~ THIS• TRUSTING BLINDL~, WEST ~ELIEVED SOVIET GIANT•S CLAWS• TEETH HAD sECOME B~U T, MANY PEOPLE THOUG~T ONE CAN HAVE PLEASANT CHAT WITH KREMLlN CHIEF~ ••• 8UT UNABLE IMAGINE1 IN 1968, SOVIET UNION STILL S01 BRUTAL AS TO OCCUPY czrCHOSLOVAKIA wAy COLONIES WERE SUBDUED1 ••• UNDOU8TEDLY1 WHOLE (CZECHOSLOVAK) NATION ABHORS COLON I AL RULERS: AND DOES •OT SHAKE HANDS WITH STALINIST 'BROTHERS.• .~~ THIS A BL~CK DAY FOR CENTRAL EUROPE AND WORLD PEACE•" . 
3• AUSTRIAN RADIO DEVOTED ENTIRE 60 MINUTE NOr B OADCAST CZ£CH DEVELOPMENTS~ BROADCAST INCLUDED INTERVIEW CZ DE~EGATE U~ • SPACE CONFERENCE IN VIENNA• HE SAID CZECH DEL~ ATlO ~EARNED OF INVASION FRO~ AUSTRIAN RAD~O· IN IN!ERVl~WI czEc p E s ATTA~HE IN VIENNA DECLARED HE WOULD ACCEPT INSTRUCTIONS ONLY FROM HIS 
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MOVE1 TANKS B~OcKING STRATEGIC POlNTs VARIOUS CITIES !NCLUDING PRAGUE1 BRNO, BRATISLAVA AND OSTRAVAe PRAGUE plcTURES SHOWED -CIVlLIANS SJTTlNG FRONT OF SOVIET TANKS PREPARED MOVE ON PR~euE RADIO BUILDING· OTHER scEN~S INCLUDED CIViL1ANS WAVlNG CZECHOSLOVAK FLAGS# PEOPLE DEBATING TANK CREWS• MACARTHUR