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Reagan was asked after his arrival in Helsinki if he thought the Panama debacle made the U.S. appear foolish. "I don't feel that way," he said. But almost everyone else does, including many inside the Administration...
...four decades of accumulated realities have given a continuity to Soviet-American relations that even the most ideological of Presidents cannot discard. Not only have Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev held four summits in the past 2 1/2 years, besting the record of Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, but, in Helsinki on his way to Moscow last week, Reagan hinted that he would also welcome a fifth meeting...
...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...
Previewing the summit in Moscow, Reagan said he hoped more progress can be made in the area of human rights, and that the Kremlin still has not lived up to promises made in the Helsinki accords on that subject...
...from released hostages, says one of the gunmen is Hassan Izz-al-Din, a Lebanese who is believed to have been directly involved in the killing of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, speaking in Helsinki en route to pre-summit meetings in Moscow: "I don't think ((releasing the hijackers)) is a proper thing to do." But he declined to "second-guess" Algeria. As for the Algerians, Interior Minister Hadi al- Khaderi, who oversaw the negotiations, explained his government's decision in its starkest terms...