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...full grants are gone, poof, like that," Fox said. "There may be two full grants for Ireland and five for Finland, but almost all the rest are out," he stated...
...Second Finland. The question is whether the Soviets will limit their at tacks on West Germany to words. Almost all Western military experts, including most West German commanders, feel that the Soviet Union would not risk starting World War III by actually invading the Federal Republic. Nonetheless, ordinary West Germans cannot help feeling physically threatened by the Red Army. Impressed by the swiftness of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, many West Germans fear that Russian tanks might punch across the border so fast and at so many points that dozens of cities would be overrun before NATO got around...
Former Common Market Chief Wal ter Hallstein mused aloud on whether the Soviets might not succeed in reducing West Germany to the status of a second Finland-fearful, quiescent and accommodating. Seeking to avoid any words that might provoke the Russians, Kiesinger repeatedly edited and rewrote his Bundestag speech. As he explained to his associates: "We must not hold a lighted match under the tail of an already enraged bear...
Most free-world governments grant their Chief Executive a more powerful mandate. Save for Argentina, Finland, India, Portugal and West Germany, which use modified Electoral College systems, democratic nations that have written their constitutions in the years since 1787 have generally avoided the Electoral College compromise in favor of either direct popular election (as in France and Mexico) or a variation on the English parliamentary system...
...King Olav V of Norway and a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; and Sonja Haraldsen, 31, daughter of a prosperous Oslo clothing manufacturer; in Oslo, in a Lutheran ceremony graced by the reigning monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Belgium and the Presidents of Iceland and Finland...