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...oddest milestones in the history of aviation. Aircraft are rarely allowed to overfly -- much less touch down in -- the tightly guarded center of Moscow, which is ringed by an antiballistic missile system that is usually described as formidable. Moreover, Rust had managed to fly unmolested from Helsinki across more than 400 miles of the most heavily guarded airspace in the world. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "This puts a hole right through one of the great myths of this place, the myth of invincibility and impenetrability." A Soviet official put it more bluntly, "There are going to be more...
...give a timetable for withdrawal but had been encouraged by a United Nations peace effort involving Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. At the same time, Gandhi refused to endorse a Soviet proposal to convene an Asian Security Conference along the lines of the European Security Conference that produced the 1975 Helsinki agreement. Gandhi brushed off the idea as "thoughtprovoking...
...arms talks in Vienna, on the periphery of a 35-nation Helsinki review conference, focused on the tentative agreements between Reagan and Gorbachev to reduce nuclear weapons and the dispute over Star Wars, which sidetracked an accord in Reykjavik...
...recent letter signed by 600 Harvard students and sent to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the students argued that this refusal violates the Final Act of the 1975 Helsinki Accord, which requires that such applications be handled in a "positive and humanitarian spirit with special attention being given to requests of an urgent character...
Other speakers included: State Sen. GeorgeBachrach (D-Watertown), Professor of Law Alan M.Dershowitz, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G.Cox, Mark Levin of the National Conference forSoviet Jewry in Washington, and Lynn Davidson ofthe Helsinki Commission...