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...international front. North Korea has defaulted on several foreign loans and arbitrarily rescheduled others, piling up an overseas debt of more than $2 billion. In addition, the country's foreign envoys have occasionally been caught cheating. Last month Yu Jae Han, North Korea's Ambassador to Finland, was expelled for trying to bribe the former Speaker of Finland's parliament. Other North Korean diplomats in recent years have been ejected from Denmark, Sweden and Norway for attempting to sell drugs, cigarettes and liquor on the black market...
What now? She doesn't know. Still, "Gorky Park is a great adventure, even if nothing happens after." Maybe, says this adventurer with a laugh, she won't even be able to leave Finland for Stockholm, where the film's final scenes are to be shot. Someone stole her purse and passport in New York, her temporary papers have expired, and the Polish embassy is not likely to give her another passport. She isn't worried. "I am a tank," she says, looking very untanklike. (The Swedes did, in fact, let her enter the country...
...literary journalism rather than academic criticism would lead him to the power he desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before they became cult books. By the beginning of World War II, he had failed to examine only one contemporary figure: Edmund Wilson...
...anti-NATO, anti-American, somewhat pro-Soviet, and a neutralist who hearkens back to the disorder of Weimar, then I suppose one could support the Greens. They are a loosely organized agglomeration of environmentalist and so-called peace parties who envision a firmly neutralist Europe (along the lines of Finland perhaps?), but their main accomplishment, should they get the 5 percent of the vote needed to become represented in parliament, would be to make West Germany ungovernable, as they have rejected the possibility of coalition with the left-leaning Social Democrats...
...outset the Politburo felt it now had a chance to make some real headway in Afghanistan. It would pour in money and advisers. Afghanistan's links with the West would be gradually severed. Afghanistan would be not only a neighboring country with whom we had good relations, like Finland, but a new member of the "Communist family...