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...final joint declaration condemned Poland for violating the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords and deplored "the sustained campaign by the Soviet Union" to crush Polish reform. The allies also agreed to suspend commercial credits to Poland, except for food purchases, and to halt negotiations on the rescheduling of Warsaw's $28.5 billion debt to the West. Beaming with satisfaction, Haig pronounced the Brussels declaration "a solid success...
...Finland's case, neutrality means following Moscow's lead in foreign affairs. Helsinki has responded warmly to the latest Soviet drive for a nuclear-free zone in Scandinavia. Finnish diplomats were conspicuously silent at the United Nations when that organization condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Soviet human rights abuses at home are never criticized publicly in Finland, even though Helsinki was the site of the 1975 international conference that finally wrote human rights observance into accords between the Soviet Union and the West...
...following orders. Last month 120,000 Finns marched in 54 cities and towns during one of the largest peace demonstrations in the country's history. Even so, pacific sentiment has not taken hold as it has in other Western European countries. Explains a student at the University of Helsinki: "The peace movement in this country has tended to be monopolized by the far left, seen as a thing of Communist propaganda. They talk about peace all the time, and no one believes them." When the country's leading pacifist, Ulla Gyllenberg, tried to encourage Finns to place lighted...
...enemies." Businessmen frequently complain that they cannot find enough Russian-speaking employees to meet their needs. Says Pentti Somerto, managing director of the Finnish Employers' Confederation: "Young people feel it is not patriotic to learn Russian." By contrast, 92% of Finns study English as a second language. Helsinki is shamelessly Western, a triumph of capitalistic materialism, replete with Cartier jewelry and Sassoon-trained hairstylists...
...said that such professions of "moderation and sensitivity on the question [were] not unwelcome," Washington had sound reason to be dubious. For one thing, the Soviets have shown little willingness to respect grand-sounding declarations they have signed in the past, such as the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords...