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HELSINKI, Finland--The Soviet Union canceled one of President Reagan's summit sessions next week with General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and objected to the makeup of a religious delegation scheduled to see Reagan, White House officials said yesterday...
...diligence of Japanese workers does not always produce positive results, according to Freed. Freed, who also speaks Finnish and French, talked about a successful Japanese student on exchange in Finland who killed himself after eight months of study there. He concluded that the American worker can share with the Japanese his ability to relax, while learning from the Japanese work ethic...
...flight crew contacted the ground, and a plan was worked out to dupe the hijackers into thinking they were landing in Finland...
...Hockey: Finland vs. Sweden...
...events only to see Americans win miss most of what is best in the Winter Olympics. At Sarajevo in 1984, the Soviets collectively came in first, the East Germans second. U.S. Olympians were fifth, taking just eight of the 117 medals awarded. That total was bettered by athletes from Finland and Norway and equaled by the Swedes. Even the quark-size principality of Liechtenstein claimed two bronzes. The long white winters of Europe, from Lapland down to Alpine Italy, virtually invite the young and gifted to test their skills on slopes and frozen ponds. In an athletic sense at least...