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./<. P~emier Ccrnik this afternoon add.ed his voico to 
th~so . of·(. ~ther ·Czechoslovak leaders calling tnr calm, pntionco 
ancJ circu.~spection .whilo Soviet ti•oops depart "gradunll y 
and in ~evera·1 ph.ases.'' Cernik added tha~ tho individunJ. · ·p!'ases ~.f .tne "complete". departure must still ~e made. co~-. .. crete, a.~d "will bo discussed.by tbe pl·oper govornment 
'/. . Like the ·.other Czechoslovak leaders, Cernik. nlso 
stated· 1~ effect· tl\at there Will be censorship of t he news 
media because of. t_ho 0 extraordina1-y sit\\at1on." 

J;.. Cernik omphasizod Chat th.ere should bo no p-rovo­cations, ·atnd carl1c1· in the dny, Josef Smrkovsky, cbnirman of the· National Assembly, begged youths and.students not to demo~strate in Praaue this afternoon. Smrkovsky ~·opo;-todly suri~ the "c1~11s~q\'e.l\coA wou~d ho unimag~nnbio," a1'd a.dvj.sod 
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pretext· tor ~eslgns which
to "give no 
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. J: Wes te_rn p~oes servicos roport that PraguG wns ~uiet today~ its citizens apparently are accepting the· si·tuatiori. with resignation. A Radio czochoslovakia broad­cast today comparod t11e Koscow agreoment unfavorably with 
that· qt Munich, but .concluded that there was 11otl1ing to do 
~ut_ accept the Mos~ow "ultim•twn." 
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'· '~reign Minister Hajok stoppod in Bolairado today, ·oe~en~ibly to· pick _ltP bis family, nnd roport:odly will rot.urn to Prague. ""°"'ezu pxess setvic>D 1ec11la+.e \ha• Hajek #ill 
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'I• There is soma ovidonce that Soviet forces pro being 
used.. to crauk down ·on 'czechoslovak liberals dosp1to the pledges 

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in the· Moscow communique not to interfero in internal atfairs. 
Moscow's attention seom ~specially drawn·to the "froo" radio 
~to.tlol\s ·which ptayod an J.mportutt role d.ur!1ng tho first 

week" of .the 
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ASoviet poetess, Nntnlia Gorbanevskaya, has sent 
to R~do Pravo and a numbor of Western newspapers, do­,,cribing a-2~ August demo11stration in Moscow agoi11st the oc­cupntton ot Czooboalovakin. Sh(.) snys the d.umQnstrn tiOI\ wns clesi'.g.nod to int·orm tlle Czechoslovaks that not all Soviet citizens app~ove qt tho action takon in their name by tlle 
·. ·soviet government, ,The demonst1·ator·s, sitting in Red Square near the exit from wbich tho Czochoslovak delogation'was to 
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deP.a,rt the.. Kremlin that evening, woro displaying placards 
.Upiiortin~ czochoslovnkia's causo whon they were sot upon 
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.euddenly by 0: squad of' socrot police wh~ shoutod, 0 Thoy nre all. Jews! beat tho ant1-Soviets?0 and onthusiastically roughed \\P unresi.tllting d.emonstrato1•s. 
· ..,. The New York Tintes co1·respondent 111 Moscow has · · ·also· lnf·ormed· the Bmb11Ssy that he has heard of a 10-13 ma~ group in Lonipgrad w~o circulated n petition supporling ' 
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tho czechos·lovnk roform and who aro charged with "a111;i.-Soviet 
"Kit&\tion•. '' Ho hos also hoard that "somothing similnr hap­
pened ·11\ Gorky" · but has boen unable to S\\pp1y details. 
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o normal manuvcra.
·*.~he. Bulgarian armed forces are mounting w11at 
CO\lld be a largo-ac.alo command post oxerciso in the nren 
~ear tho ..Rum~n1An tronti~r, .according to the US Defenso 
. Attacho t:n Sofia. The attaeh.o reportod seoing no combat vehicles. a~d no Soviet troop!!' in the ai·ea durln; a 27 August trip. 
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