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...year search for an East-West accommodation-in Geneva and Paris, in Glassboro and Vladivostok-takes President Gerald R. Ford this week to the capital of Finland for a new round of that mixture of diplomacy and show business known as summitry (see THE WORLD). With 35 nations in attendance, the Helsinki conclave is being touted as the most spectacular since the Congress of Vienna, and yet because the preliminary negotiations have led to no real change in the current state of uneasy detente, the world is also being told that the European Security Conference is mostly show, a ratification...
...Kissinger spoke in Minneapolis, the Russian Nobel prizewinner warned a group of Senators and Congressmen about the European Security Conference scheduled this month in Helsinki to settle East-West disputes unresolved from World War II. Solzhenitsyn predicted that in Helsinki "an amicable agreement of diplomatic shovels will bury and pack down corpses still breathing in a common grave...
...Chinese Look? The reopening of East-West trade was a major impetus. Commune-style jackets imported from the People's Republic caught the fancy of the young in Paris two years ago as an alternative to the standard jeans and T shirts. "For the past ten years in the West, the fashion emphasis has been on 'the uniform,'' says American Designer Mary McFadden. "We had to have some resurrection of beautiful fabric and fantasy, and when you go to fantasy you must go ethnic...
...Mindszenty's life began when he was finally freed in 1971. The cardinal had long refused to leave Hungary unless the government exonerated him of all charges. It was only at the insistence of Pope Paul VI and the urging of President Nixon, who both wanted to improve East-West relations, that Mindszenty agreed to go. Even then, according to his own account, he refused to accept a church document specifying that he would make no statements to disturb détente...
...East-West detente is still a primary pur suit. Among the items on the agenda of detente are a Strategic Arms Limitation agreement, to be negotiated at a meeting between President Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev later this year, and a summit in Helsinki next summer, winding up Brezhnev's cherished project of a European Security Conference...