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Representatives of 35 nations gathered in Finland more than two years ago to sign a document that unexpectedly ignited human hopes across the Continent. But human rights activism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe sparked by the Helsinki accord threatened to undo years of work toward East-West detente. Thus when a svelte Swedish woman delegate, two priests from the Vatican, a mustachioed Spaniard and some 400 other delegates to the Belgrade meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation congregated in the corridors of starkly modern Sava Conference Center last week, much more was involved than a club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: D | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...will insist on a thorough examination of how the 1975 agreement worked, including a review of the American performance. Specifically, Goldberg will try to persuade Soviet-bloc countries to make family reunions across East-West borders easier by eliminating exorbitant visa fees and reprisals against would-be emigrants-like dismissal from their jobs. He will also propose multiple-entry visas for businessmen trading with Communist countries and elimination of red tape that currently restricts journalists' entry into the Eastern bloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: D | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Gromyko spent most of his 14 hours with U.S. officials last week discussing SALT. But in his meeting with Carter, two of the three hours were devoted to such global issues as the Middle East, Africa, European security and the climate of East-West relations. The President emphasized that he remained concerned about the Soviet Union's record on human rights and specifically raised the issue of the continued imprisonment of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Wading into the Stream | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...last week's events sharply dramatized, Carter is going to use all his presidential resources to win approval of the treaty. He needs it to vindicate his foreign policy, which has run into snags in the Middle East, in the Far East and in the SALT talks. He also wants to emphasize that he is not solely preoccupied with East-West problems, but gives considerable weight to the crucial relationship between developed North and the underdeveloped southern portion of the globe. The Panama Canal treaty, he feels, is the key to establishing better relations with the South. As Costa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Now for the Hard Part | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

There are more delicate matters at issue, many raised by people who knew Bhajan when. Judith Tyberg, respected founder of Los Angeles' East-West Center, where Bhajan briefly gave courses, questions his knowledge of Kundalini yoga. She fired him from her faculty after three months for another reason -which she refuses to divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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