Word: finlandized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beirut International Airport, customs men have trained dogs to sniff out drugs hidden in luggage. In Tashkent, a woman Soviet agent with a superb olfactory sense sniffed hash carried by three young Americans, who were flying via Aeroflot from Afghanistan to Finland. Two are still serving time in the infamous Potma labor camp southeast of Moscow...
...white newsmen can match the achievements of Carl T. Rowan, a distinguished reporter and foreign correspondent who became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Ambassador to Finland and director of the U.S. Information Agency. Rowan now writes a thrice-weekly column carried by 150 newspapers. As a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Rowan made a reputation covering civil rights, later received assignments on major nonblack stories. He covered Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the Midwest and the Hungarian and Suez crises...
Unless the coalition negotiations unexpectedly collapse, in a matter of weeks Austria will become Western Europe's fifth Socialist-led government (following England, West Germany, Sweden and Finland). Kreisky will not alter his country's permanent military neutrality or encourage a further nationalization of Austria's industry, already largely state-owned. He has promised to seek associate membership in the Common Market, introduce scientific analysis and economic planning in government, and modernize Austria's antiquated school system...
...also troubled some of Europe's smaller parties. In Austria, the hierarchy killed a rambunctious magazine that grew increasingly critical of Soviet dogma. In Britain, where the leadership has made public peace with Moscow but remains privately critical, a pro-Kremlin faction has recently gained strength. In tiny Finland, governed by a coalition that includes the Communists, the party leadership was forced to mollify a growing, Moscow-oriented faction by criticizing the government's economic policies. The result has been to weaken the Communists' position in the coalition...
...extent that is staggering from a U.S. point of view, the idea has caught on in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, England and, as one editor puts it, "even Spain." The "democratization" movement has flourished in the generally socialist climate of postwar Europe. Bitter experiences under the Third Reich or the Occupation prejudiced many journalists-both rank and file and at the top of the masthead -against extreme concentration of editorial control...