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CZECH TASK FORCE 


i·. Plc~....!_9 Meet Saturday to Elect ~'ew ""re.sfdiu~~: Reutc1:s reports that there will be a Party plenum tomor ow to eiect a new Presidium. There has been no official confoDnation from Prague, lthough rumors have been prevalent that such a m<:.etfng would be held in the next few days. I.f the Plenum is, in fact, 
to elect a new Pr~sidium1 . it would confirm t\1e ill~gality of the 14th Congress, reportedly on of the Soviet d~mands. ( euters 920) 
2. Tito .foets with Sovic.t Ambassador: T nyug reports that President Tito nict ~Tth the. S-ovict Amb~ssador to Yugoslavia at the lattercs request at Brioni. ­Present at the meeting was Party Secretary Todorovic. The topic of the meet­ing M8S not announced. The meeting came at a time when the weekly paper Komunist in Belgrade warned that Russia might try invasion tactics in other count Tes. The article, according to Reute.rs, said that the Sovie.t Union had -replaced the power of ideas by t:he. power of arms. It added that tbe USSR would not re.cover its lost repute tion within the fol.·eseeable f.uture. (FBIS 66, Reuters 884). 

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