Warsaw Pact forces gather for exercise
NZPA-Reuter East Berlin The'first of 40,000 Warsaw Pact troops have begun arriving in East Germany for manoeuvres early next month,': the official news media have announced. ■',« The East German pres? was careful to point out that the exercise had been planned well in advance, apparently to allay suspicion that it could be linked with the unrest in neighbouring Poland. Several Soviet divissions are due to cross Poland soon to join the exercise.
The Communist Party daily, “Neues Deutschland”’ said that Operation Broth-erhood-in-Arms, part of the Communist alliance’s annual joint manoeuvres, would be
staged in the, first half of i September in various parts of the country and in the : Baltic Sea. The newspaper reported the arrival of a unit of Czechoslovak troops in the border town of Loebau and i said they were welcomed by local people and presented with flowers. The official A.D.N. news agency reported that Bulgarian soldiers were given a similiar reception in the ' nearby town of Pima. The manoeuvres will be i the biggest joint Warsaw Pact exercise in East Ger- i many since 1970, when more than 100,000 troops took 1 part in a similar country- j wide operation. According to informed 1 sources in East Berlin, the <
i manoeuvres will take place in the first week of next month and be completed by September 8. An East German Defence Ministry spokesman said that foreign military observers had not been invited'and that press coverage would be restricted to journalists from Soviet bloc States. “Neues Deutschland” said the combat exercise would involve troops from the Warsaw Pact’s “united armed forces” without listing participants. In the last few 'years Rumania has refused to send troops to manoeuvres staged by the other six member States — the Soviet Union, Poland, East. Germany, Czechoslovakia,. Hungary, and. Bulgaria. 1 :
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