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...windswept Baltic inlet only a few miles from Helsinki sits a starkly modern building, an angular Finnish masterpiece in white pine and fieldstone, which houses the student union of Helsinki's Technical University. There, around a hollow six-sided table, the representatives of 32 European countries plus the U.S. and Canada took their places last week to begin talks that may lead to the most significant conference in Europe's postwar history...
...community of nations. By its terms, Bonn establishes formal relations with East Berlin. A host of other capitals are sure to follow, starting with the Scandinavian countries. East Berlin will now demand, and will probably get, the right to participate fully in talks scheduled to begin Nov. 22 in Helsinki leading to a European Security Conference; if that happens, the easterners will also join in parallel negotiations expected next year on mutual and balanced force reductions in Europe. By next fall, both Germanys can become full-fledged members of the United Nations,*which neither could join so long...
...Berlin. After the signing, Rogers made the first visit into East Berlin by a U.S. official in a car bearing an American flag. He was saluted by East German border guards as he crossed Checkpoint Charlie. Second, the Foreign Ministers of NATO, briefed on the summit by Rogers, selected Helsinki as the site to begin exploratory talks in the fall that will precede a 33-nation conference on European security, probably in 1973. It would presumably legitimize the Russian seizure of Polish and German lands in World War II. But the NATO Ministers insist that progress be made simultaneously toward...
...Soviet agreements on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, the summit signing was, except for a few last-minute technical hitches, mainly a formality. The details had been worked out in tough, painstaking but nonpolemical SALT negotiations extending over 2½ years. Through some 130 separate meetings, alternating between Helsinki and Vienna, the talks were often deadlocked and agreement seemed improbable. But in the end, both sides showed a realistic willingness to compromise. The result should be a historic slowdown in the costly and dangerous arms race. It does not end that race, however, and even more painful bargaining lies ahead...
...crunch, the Soviets are almost certain to opt for better relations. In addition to their fears of U.S.-Chinese collusion, the Soviets are motivated by economic self-interest in wanting to bring the nuclear arms race under control via the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, now under way in Helsinki. A first-phase pact covering anti-ballistic missiles and an agreement setting ceilings on the number of offensive missiles could be signed at the Moscow summit. The Russians would also like to have U.S. economic and technological help...