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...Britain, the mutiny had been staged by "officers and some other crew members" who succeeded in taking command of their vessel for a time. But then the uprising was crushed, and the second sub entered Sogne Fjord to give help. The defeated mutineers, said Albania's Radio Tirana in a 16-minute broadcast that cited Moscow sources, were transferred to the second sub, and both vessels left the fjord, heading for the Baltic. The broadcast suggested that the uprising posed special danger to European security because of the nuclear arms aboard...
Albania's best friend since its 1961 split with Nikita Khrushchev's liberalized Communism has been Red China, half a world away. Peking provided Tirana with everything from light bulbs to a giant hydroelectric dam that generates power for them. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha in return offered the Chinese relentless praise for their brand of unswerving Marxism...
Lately, to Hoxha's displeasure, Peking has swerved. The Albanians were upset over the Nixon visit to China. In a pointed comparison of U.S. and Soviet policies, the Tirana ideological journal Rruga e Partisë (The Party's Road) warned that "it is wrong to rely on one imperialism to oppose another...
Malta's Prime Minister Dom Mintoff was welcomed on a recent Peking visit as an anti-imperialist champion. The Albanian press meanwhile lambasted "Maltese ruling circles" for selling out to Britain by negotiating a new military base agreement. The two allies disagree on the European Common Market (Tirana is opposed) and on Chinese overtures toward the Communist parties of Italy and Spain (in Albanian eyes both are revisionist). So far, the Chinese lion has ignored the roars from its Adriatic mouse...
...climate for this week's meeting has been improved by Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's apparent decision not to visit Albania, Rumania and Yugoslavia this fall. For several months, Moscow had grumbled about the formation of a sort of pro-Peking Tirana-Bucharest-Belgrade axis. Moscow was even dropping ominous hints of military intervention against Rumania and Yugoslavia, but the Russians now seem to have cooled off. After Belgrade, Brezhnev's next whistlestop is Paris in late October...