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...Along with representatives from 34 other countries, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes arrived in Vienna last week to attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally was called to mark...
...Nidal certainly wants to undermine Arafat and do a favor to his sponsors, the Libyans, helping them take revenge on the Americans," says one Israeli expert. "But he has no expertise in this type of action. His specialty is assassinations." While a caller to the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had warned that terrorists allied with Abu Nidal planned to sabotage a Frankfurt-to-New York Pan Am flight, Finnish authorities insist that the tipster was a habitual alarmist whose call was a mere coincidence. Said FBI director William Sessions last week: "The bureau believes that it was a hoax...
...Crimson then crossed borders and faced HIFK--the seventh-best team in Finland--December 20 in Helsinki. Harvard trailed, 5-4, late in the second period, but the pros proved too much, reeling off five unanswered goals...
...American embassies in Europe and the Middle East had received advisories from Washington more than a week earlier that a bomb threat had explicitly been made against Pan Am ( flights from Frankfurt to the U.S. The threat had come from an anonymous telephone caller to the American embassy in Helsinki. The tipster said a man in Frankfurt, identified only as Abdullah, planned to give a bomb to an accomplice named Yassan Garadad, who in turn would persuade an unwitting woman passenger to take the deadly package on board with her. The caller, who spoke with a Middle Eastern accent, claimed...
...Only then, the real dance began," he recalls. In 1977 his family had signed Charter 77, a petition that called on the Prague government to observe the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. Within a month, all four were arrested and held briefly for questioning. Ruml was frequently picked up by the police in the years that followed, and in April 1981 he and his son Jan were accused of organizing subversive activities, an offense that carries a ten-year jail term. They were kept in different parts of a Prague prison, seeing each other only once in 13 months...