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...Helsinki accord was a complex compromise between the Soviet desire for recognition of its hegemony in Eastern Europe and Western desire for an international codification of human rights among other things). How to monitor these agreements was the issue at Belgrade, and to the extent that conferences bring victories, the West won on most counts-if only because the Soviets never made their threatened all-out stand against the U.S. human rights campaign...
...Center outside Belgrade. Both looked as if they had just pulled off some master stroke of detente. As a matter of fact they had. After seven weeks of edgy deliberations to decide the date, duration agenda and procedures for a higher-level conference this autumn, following up the 1975 Helsinki accord, the envoys of 35 nations reached an agreement last week in a surprisingly conciliatory spirit...
...real contest centered on the U.S. delegation's determination to list a review of human rights violations separately from any questions of promoting detente, thus blocking the Soviets from hiding rights cases behind a blur of rhetoric. Trouble was, the Helsinki accord lumped the two issues together in a single sentence.* Thus began what came to be called the "Battle of the Dashes...
...residence, Château Rambouillet. the luxurious 14th century castle 33 miles southwest of Paris. Thereupon he launched into a 2½-hr. dissertation on détente and disarmament. Brezhnev defended the Soviet Union as the only country in the world that had incorporated the principles of the Helsinki summit in its constitution...
...telling Toth of Carter's relief that the incident was over, Brzezinski said: "We were also concerned because your treatment raises certain fundamental principles-the free flow of information, free access and freedom of the press." Brzezinski was choosing his words carefully to echo the language of the Helsinki Basket III provisions...