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Though many difficult details must still be worked out by SALT negotiators, now meeting in Helsinki, the overall shape of the nuclear accommodation between the superpowers was beginning to emerge. The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to a series of ceilings and freezes in which Washington has consented to Soviet parity-and in several cases numerical superiority-in every major category of defensive and offensive strategic nuclear weaponry (see chart). In return, the Soviets made two important concessions. They agreed to place limits on the number of missile subs. But more important, they agreed to exclude from the present...
...conference on European security, which would, in effect, be the peace conference that would end World War II. Brezhnev hopes to gather representatives from the 30 countries of Europe, plus the U.S. and Canada in one gigantic conference, to be held most likely in Helsinki. At that time, the Soviets would press for recognition of present borders in Europe. That would legitimize Russia's postwar grab of Polish lands, and Poland's seizure of German lands. It would also enhance the international status of East Germany...
...outports. The benefits also included jobs, and Joey was an able, almost irresistible salesman for his province on his frequent trips abroad. He personally badgered Winston Churchill into approving British support for the $1 billion hydroelectric development now being built at Churchill Falls. In 1965 Smallwood visited Helsinki on an industry-scouting trip with Richard Nixon, then a corporate lawyer; Joey accompanied Nixon on a side trip to Moscow and proposed, at Moscow University, that the former Vice President and Nikita Khrushchev run for President of each other's country...
...Finland, Cabinetmaking is almost a folk art, primarily because there are too many parties. Eight major political groups ranging from Communists to Conservatives are further split by a host of quarreling factions. One Helsinki newspaper utilized a computer, which figured out that because of the splintered groups there were 123 possible combinations. It is virtually certain that the new Cabinet will include the Communists, who have 36 of the 200 parliamentary seats, and exclude the Conservatives (34 seats) because the Soviets are openly hostile to them. What other factions will join the Cabinet is still anyone's guess...
Senator Frank Church, who was visiting Moscow, that the current U.S.-U.S.S.R. meetings in Helsinki on limiting strategic arms are "the most important talks going on in the world today"-a hint, perhaps, that the Soviets may respond to the Nixon trip by seeking their own accommodations with the West rather than turning more belligerent. There was private speculation in Washington that a SALT agreement might bring Nixon and Soviet leaders together for the signing and produce an American-Soviet summit even before Nixon goes to Peking...