Word: finlandization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...conference tables and translating equipment. The government planned to requisition at least 2,500 of the city's 4,000 hotel rooms (thereby creating a problem for 1,500 doctors who are due this week for an international conference on blood transfusion). Police leaves have been canceled throughout Finland, and the 1,800-man Helsinki force has been bolstered with 800 special troops. Although Finland has no known terrorist groups and no organizations have publicly opposed the conference, police were nonetheless watching for foreign troublemakers, like West German anarchists associated with the Baader-Meinhof gang...
...real surprise is that despite the severity of the global recession, free traders so far have held the dikes successfully against the protectionist tide; nothing resembling the tariff wars of the 1930s has occurred. Import-limiting actions, as distinct from talk, have been few and scattered. For example, Finland now requires importers to post large bonds, and the Japanese have persuaded several trading partners to limit, voluntarily and temporarily, some shipments to Japan...
...much of it came together in the drawing rooms of Paris and Rome couturiers. The soft-goods departments in stores from Tokyo to Beirut are beginning to look less like hospital wards than fashion salons, with towels by Pierre Cardin, sheets by Saint Laurent and table linen by Finland's Marimekko...
...unathletic Pretender, the cast is just right. Mignon Dunn as Princess Marina is cunningly believable as an ambitious conspirator. Paul Plishka's Pimen is delivered with a basso profundo of enough tensile magnificence to signal a potential Boris. Right now, though, the role is the hot property of Finland's Martti Talvela, a huge (6 ft. 7 in., 260 Ibs.), nimble, running tackle of a man with an obsessed, Orson Wellesian face. At 39 he has a voice that may lack the steely edge of, say, Chaliapin, Kipnis or even Pinza but compensates with its oval warmth...