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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...
...guerrillas but also "acceptable elements" of the Rhodesian forces. Moreover, they pointed out, the Rhodesian police would remain in place under the transitional leadership. Overseeing this delicate grouping of white-led police and black-controlled army units would be U.N. forces, perhaps composed of contingents from Nigeria, Kenya and Finland. British and American officials argue that once a transitional government embracing moderate African elements was in place in Salisbury, the guerrilla armies would be under increasing pressure not to fight on for total control...
...Much credit was also due to some skillful mediation by nine neutral and nonaligned nations (Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The " NNs," as they were dubbed adroitly provided many of the phrases and even the punctuation of the agreement their own desire (which coincided with Washington's) for a full-scale conference this fall...
RECYCLING. Some countries are stretching their water supplies by reusing water. The Japanese are testing a system under which water is first used for human consumption, then for industrial purposes. Finland's pulp and paper industry is trying a system under which it recovers its waste and reuses its water rather than drawing heavily on fresh supplies. Other countries require manufacturers and power companies to install closed-circuit cooling systems instead of allowing them to continually withdraw water from rivers or lakes...
After that, it is the Communists' turn. They are represented by a husband-wife team of rich dilettantes, whose aim is to turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers...