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...protect him from embarrassing demonstrations and even violence by members of extremist Yugoslav émigré groups. Of the estimated 1.5 million Americans of Yugoslav origin, only a few hundred belong to fanatical Tito-baiting political organizations, some with direct spiritual links to Hitler. Still, as Premier Aleksei Kosygin's close call in Ottawa last week demonstrates, the security problem is not merely a matter of numbers. State Department representatives have been meeting with members of Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian exile groups to explain to them why good relations with the present Yugoslav government are in the national interest...
Last week he welcomed Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin to Canada. The visit was particularly well timed from Kosygin's point of view, since it coincided with a dramatic upsurge of Canadian resentment of the U.S. over Washington's 10% surcharge on imports. With unemployment already above 7% and likely to rise sharply, Canadians feel victimized by the protectionist policies adopted by their best trading partner...
Limited Success. Though there were troubled waters aplenty for diplomatic fishing, Kosygin's visit was only a limited success. Before the Soviet Premier arrived, Trudeau mused: "Every week I have people demonstrating against me on Parliament Hill. If he comes, he'll have to expect a good deal of that." He was putting it mildly. Almost from the moment he arrived, the Soviet Premier was beset by demonstrators from among Canada's 173,000 Jews, 473,000 Ukrainians and various Eastern European minorities. Ottawa police found a bomb near the Soviet embassy and eleven Molotov cocktails...
...press conference, Kosygin replied that Russia's Jews, whom he puts at 2,100,000, enjoy proportionately better education than other citizens and that 4,450 have been allowed to emigrate to Israel in the past eight months. "It's true we're restraining in some cases the departure of some people who have just been expensively educated," he said. "Nor can we supply Israel with soldiers...
...protest could easily have wound up in tragedy, despite a swarm of Mounties and KGB men surrounding the two leaders wherever they went. As Kosygin and Trudeau strolled on Parliament Hill, a leather-jacketed demonstrator dashed through security guards and grabbed the Soviet Premier from behind, shouting "Freedom for Hungary!" As the color drained from Kosygin's face, the man almost ripped off the Soviet Premier's coat and pushed him against a Mountie. The protester was quickly hauled away and charged with common assault. Though Trudeau observed that Kosygin "is a pretty hard-nosed guy," the Soviet...