Word: finlandized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three international airlines announced Monday that they will discontinue next month their reduced "student" fares on flights from the United States to Belgium, Holland and Finland...
...York Times last week published a list of ambassadors appointed by President Nixon, along with the amounts that they contributed to his last two elections. The price for even the least prestigious post seems to run to five figures. Thus, in ascending order, V. John Krehbiel, Ambassador to Finland, paid out $19,000 to the G.O.P. in the past four years; Anthony D. Marshall, the ambassador to sunny Trinidad and Tobago, $75,505; John P. Humes, Ambassador to Austria...
...foreigners. Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and Lutz Phillip of West Germany, are the favorites in a race which Americans rarely win these days. Olympic champion Frank Shorter is passing up the Boston event, apparently in deference to another Yale man, Erich Segal...
...epee, Risto Hurme from NYU and Ernesto Fernandez from Penn are in a hotly contested race for the individual title. Hurme has lost once, Fernandez twice, and the two epee men will meet in today's competition. The match should be a classic. Both fencers are Olympians, Hurme for Finland and Fernandez from Mexico. They are outstanding fencers of completely different styles. Hurme is a "tempo-rhythm" type of fencer, who always keeps moving; Fernandez is basically a point man, working around the arms and going for the feet...
...FINLAND is anxious to advance its role as an active neutral. At present the Finns badly need to sign a trade treaty with the nine-nation Common Market. But Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has warned Finnish President Urho Kekkonen that the time is not right for Finland to make trade deals with the European Economic Community. Kekkonen, who places top foreign policy priority on maintaining friendly relations with the Kremlin, might be less reluctant to press ahead with an EEC trade treaty if Finland at the same time is the site of the security conference...