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...long meeting produced no breakthroughs, at least it kept alive the resumed U.S.-Soviet dialogue. Shultz and Gromyko tentatively planned to meet again in Helsinki Aug. 1, and they agreed to push for accords on matters like cultural exchanges. The "nervousness and angst" between the two countries have diminished, U.S. officials insist, even if they have been replaced by stalemate. Said Shultz: "We heard each other out. I think that's very useful...
...week's end the Soviet Union shed light on the incident. The Soviet ) Ambassador in Helsinki paid a call on the Finnish Foreign Minister to acknowledge that, "in connection with target shooting in the Barents Sea," a target drone "could have strayed off course and violated Finnish airspace." Almost simultaneously, the Soviet Ambassador in Oslo delivered a similar message to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry...
...Popieluszko murder is only one in a series of unexplained acts of violence during the past three years. According to the New York City-based U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, about 55 Poles, many of them former Solidarity activists or supporters, have died under mysterious circumstances since martial law was imposed. In the city of Wroclaw last week, a group of workers and intellectuals announced the creation of a committee to monitor human rights abuses. Members said they had taken the unusual step because "the police forces have slipped out of social control and even out of the control...
...Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned to try out for a symbolic team. Ashford posted her world record 100 (10.79) in Colorado last summer to chill the East German runners awaiting her in Helsinki. But she arrived there, as usual, grabbing her right hamstring, which she racked in the heats and wrecked in the finals. At the Olympic trials in June, taped as tautly and poignantly as Mickey Mantle, she won the 100 but could not finish the 200. "To be injured...
...These times are very frightening, and it shows to us that we have been too weak in defending our human rights ideals," said Yankelevich, adding that the U.S. should more stringently enforce the Helsinki Accords, Mr. Yankelevich, who is Sakharov's official representative in the U.S., said that the film was important because it would bring the subject of Sakharov and life in the USSR to the attention of the American people...