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There was only one item on the agenda last week as seven Finnish Cabinet members gathered in emergency session in Helsinki's Government House: acceptance of a resignation letter written in the shaky hand of President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, a victim for the past few years of progressive hardening of the arteries. Although inevitable, Kekkonen's departure still shocked many of the 4.8 million Finns, who cannot remember any other presidential figure than the tall, bald, once athletic man who has guided Finland since...
...fraternal country" where it deems "socialism" to be in jeopardy. None of those interventions, whether in time of cold war or thaw, elicited from the West meaningful political and economic sanctions, to say nothing of military retribution. One of Brezhnev's diplomatic triumphs was the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe at which 35 governments, notably including the Ford Administration, ratified the postwar order in Europe. De facto, the Iron Curtain and the Brezhnev Doctrine were, and remain, very much a part of that order...
Abroad, as in the U.S., there was a sense of deja vu. "Oh no, not again!" said a man in Helsinki as he picked up a newspaper at a kiosk. A newspaper in Athens charged that?what else??the CIA was responsible...
...Helsinki is the "most significant human rights agreement in our history and must be exploited to expedite the releast of more than 3 million Soviet Jews held as political prisoners," Drinan added...
Although the Soviets have "violated the spirit of the Helsinki Accords, in which they pledged freedom of emigration and guaranteed basic civil rights to all their citizens." Drinan said he is encouraged because 240,000 Soviet Jews have been granted visas since...