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Another sobering fact is that international support is not solid. Beginning with the Helsinki summit, the Soviets have indicated that they will support only a U.N. military action (which is subject to a Chinese veto). Also, they continue to connect Iraq-Kuwait and Israel-Palestinian issues...
...CSCE, as its name suggests, has been simply a conference, its duties, membership and even its full title a mystery to most Americans and Europeans. CSCE includes all European states except Albania, plus the U.S. and Canada. It met first in Helsinki in 1975 -- at the height of detente -- to sign a nonbinding declaration of principles focused on nonaggression, human rights and economic cooperation. Since then, there have been three review conferences, but CSCE has never acquired a staff or even a mailing address. The foreign ministers agreed last week that the Paris summit should establish a permanent CSCE secretariat...
...opposition to it is backed by six votes of the Security Council. A nationwide poll conducted for TIME/CNN last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed Bush with an overall approval rating of 71% and support for his handling of the gulf crisis even higher at 75%. His summit in Helsinki with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bolstered his claim that the confrontation in the Persian Gulf is not the U.S. vs. Iraq but "Iraq against the world...
Like Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush may have welcomed their rendezvous last weekend as a respite from problems at home. Just before the President departed for Helsinki, he ascended another summit, this one devoted to hammering out a plan to contain the exploding federal deficit...
...GULF: A Helsinki summit shows how much the world has changed...