Red Army to Start Troop Pullout in Czechoslovakia
The Red Army will start leaving Czechoslovakia next week and an agreement on complete Soviet withdrawal from Hungary may come within a month, officials said today.
Gen. Anton Slimak, Czechoslovak chief of staff, said the Soviet withdrawal would begin next week in Bruntal, 160 miles east of Prague, the official news agency CTK reported.
Czechoslovakia had sought total withdrawal by the end of this year, but Slimak said that would not happen. Moscow wants until the end of 1991, and sources in Prague said earlier this week that June, 1991, was a likely compromise.
In Budapest, a senior Hungarian official was quoted as predicting agreement within a month on ending decades of Soviet military presence.
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