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...effort to build a buffer for Leningrad, the Soviet Union's second largest city, Stalin at that time demanded that Finland move its southern border to the north, beyond artillery range of the city. The Finns refused, and Stalin decided to use force. "The Finns turned out to be good warriors," says Khrushchev. "We soon realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew. The Finns would climb up into the fir trees and shoot our men at pointblank range. Covered by branches, with white cloaks over their uniforms, the Finns were invisible...
HELSINKI: As the third round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks resumed in Finland's capital, the Russians probed a U.S. proposal under which both sides would limit their strategic-weapons systems. They are understood to have countered with a proposal of their own, but the details remained secret...
...countries-Hungary and Finland-are covered this year for the first time, and there is a new treatment of some old standbys. The guide mentions the Greek junta's torture of political prisoners and adds...
Changing Roles. As wage costs balloon, a growing list of companies in Western Europe and Japan are seeking similar savings-sometimes next door, sometimes at the other end of the world. Sweden's Saab has just completed a plant in Uusikaupunkt, an undeveloped area of Finland, to roll out 15,000 cars a year, about one-third of which will be sent back to Sweden; the Finnish workers get about half the pay that Saab's Swedish employees do. West Germany's Daimler-Benz has invested $6.6 million in a Yugoslav truck and bus plant and supplies...
...scarcely to the advantage of the rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...