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TERRRUPTED LAST NIGHT OA NEWS SULLETIN · ANNOUNCING SOVIET ACTIO:·J . 
DAGER TOOK MICROPHONE AFTERWARD TO STATE THAT IF SOVIET UNION 
AND ITS PUPPETS EVER HAD ANY MORAL AUTHORITY IN LATH~ A·1ER!CAN , 
THIS LATEST ACTIO .J HAD DESTROYED IT . 
4. ALL CARACAS MO? JING NEWS.PAPERS CARRY BANNER, FROiH -PAGE 
HE~DLINES ANMOUNCING "SOVIET INVASIO~ OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA." STORY 
BROKE TOO LATE YESTERDAY FOR EDITORIAL REACTION TO ·DEVELOP , BUT 
DIRECTOR OF ULTIMAS NOTICIAS TELE?HO~ED EMBASSY OFFICER AT 

8:00 THIS MORNING TO EXPRESS .INDIGNATIO~ ON· BEHALF CAPR!LES . 
PRESS CHAIN OVER SOVIET ACTIO~. EDITORIAL ARTICLE IN TODAY •s 
EL UNIVERSAL, WRITTEN BEFORE SOVIET INVASION , STATES THAT /·

RECENT VENEZUELAN OFFICIAL VISITORS TO PRAGUE CAN REFUTE SOVIET CHARGES THAT "IMPERIALISTIC INFLUENCES" AT WORK IN tZECHOSLOVAKIA. ARTICLE STATES THAT ALL CZECH LEADERS ARE TRYING TO DO IS TO DIRECT NATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATIONAL INTERESTS RATHER THAT "N"EO­IMPERIALISTIC SOVIET APPE1ITES . " IT CONCLUDES THAT THIS TIME . 
SOVIETS WILL NOT DARE ACT AGAINST CZECHOSLOVAKIA AS KRUSHCHEV 
DID AGAINST HUNGARY BECAUSE NOT ONLY ·~EST BUT OTHER COMMUNIST. 
GROUPS IN WORLD SYMPATHIZE WITH CZECH POSITION. 

5. EMBASSY HOPES IT MAY BE AUTHORIZED TO BRIEF FONOFF ON ·US . POSITIO AND DEVELOPMENTS CZEGHOSLOVAK SITUATION SHORTLY . 
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