Word: finlandized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief negotiators at Kilometer 101 were Egypt's Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi, Israel's Major General Aharon Yariv, and the commander of the U.N. forces, Major General Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, who presided over the meetings. At an earlier session, General Siilasvuo had asked each side to come back with a set of proposals that it thought might be acceptable to the other. On Thursday, after a three-day recess, the generals returned to face each other once again over Israeli coffee and Egyptian pastry...
...Tartar empire in central Asia began to crumble, Russia expanded eastward, pushing to the Pacific in search of natural resources and territory. In the era of high imperialism, when the other European powers were carving up Africa, America and Asia, the Russians established an empire stretching from Poland and Finland to Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands in the Pacific...
...addition to such longtime peacekeepers as Austria, Finland and Sweden, the United Nations Emergency Force could include soldiers of ten other nations drawn from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the East bloc. France protested its exclusion, but was voted down. Britain also wanted to join, largely to recapture some of its onetime role as a Middle East power broker. In the end, the British grudgingly went along with Kissinger's proposal...
Died. Paavo Nurmi, 76, Finland's legendary long-distance runner who won seven individual gold medals in three Olympiads (during the 1920s), of heart disease; in Helsinki. As a poor youngster, Nurmi worked in a foundry and ran 50 miles a week to develop his stamina. With long, flowing strides, "the Flying Finn" streaked through his decade, setting 28 world marks and dominating every distance race from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon. Disqualified from the 1932 Olympics for "professionalism," he returned bitterly to Finland and made a fortune in the construction business...
Student fares are now applicable only on flights to Belgium, Holland and Finland...