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Along Rumania's long border with Bulgaria, Hungary and the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact forces were gathering. The Soviet propaganda organs turned the full force of their venom against Rumania and its party leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, and the press in Moscow's allied capitals followed dutifully. So similar was the pattern of visible and intelligence-monitored Soviet activity to what preceded the invasion of Czechoslovakia that an alarmed President Lyndon Johnson spoke out. Though he did not specifically cite Rumania in an otherwise routine speech before a San Antonio milk producers' convention, he made his meaning...
...lumbering through the streets of Prague and the entire country lay in the vise of Soviet power. The occupation force was largely in place: twelve Russian mechanized divisions, one division of troops from Poland and one from East Germany, along with token units from Hungary and a few from Bulgaria that had been brought in ships to Russia across the Black Sea. The Germans were prudently kept out of sight in the countryside, because Czechoslovaks remember all too vengefully the last visit by German troops...
...also Cernik and Smrkovsky to continue in office. This would leave mat ters pretty much where they stood after Cierna?except that Soviet tanks would still be in Czechoslovakia as enforcers of the agreement. There were even reports that the party bosses from Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Bulgaria might come to Moscow to give their endorsement to such an accord...
...Soviet tanks and troop-carrying vehicles were less than 25 miles from the Czechoslovak rail center of Zilina. Part of the Soviet Third Army manned Russia's Carpathian border with Czechoslovakia, while to the south, a huge Soviet troop convoy waited inside Hungary. Token forces from Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany and Hungary had also been put on battle-ready status. Air bases in Poland and nearby Baltic states were crowded with Soviet warplanes. The missing, crucial fragment of information was whether the Kremlin had mustered these forces as a bluff or a preliminary for invasion...
...ninth World Youth Festival convened last week in Sofia, Bulgaria. As in all Communist-dominated slogan-fests, the talk in delegates' dormitories and around restaurant tables rang with indignation and accusation. No one, protested one young Rumanian Communist, has any right to interfere "in the internal affairs of other people." Was he lambasting the U.S. role in Viet Nam, as usual? Not at all. He was talking about the Soviet Union's squeeze on Czechoslovakia - a matter that exercised many of the 15,000 delegates far more than the festival's official theme of "solidarity with...