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...have always styled myself a Democrat, congratulating myself on my lib eral outlook. Lately though, it seems that I agree with President Ford more than I agree with my own Democratic Congress. Gerald Ford seems to be realistic, as his decision to sign the treaty in Helsinki shows. Far from being a betrayal of Eastern Europe, this document is an acknowledgment of Europe as it is today. Our denial of its existence is hardly going to make the Berlin Wall go away...
President Ford laid a wreath in memory of the Nazi concentration camp victims at Auschwitz and then proceeded to Helsinki to a friendly meeting with Mr. Brezhnev, the boss of a system responsible for maintaining numerous Soviet concentration camps...
Jerry Ford's hold on the future is still tenuous. Despite a successful transition year. Despite some encouraging economic signs. Despite the successful Mayaguez affair. Despite the Helsinki summit meeting...
Though the scorcher showed some signs of abating last week, at its height it sent temperatures from the tip of Lapland to the boot of Italy soaring into the 90s day after day. Palermo recorded 105°, Cannes 98°, Helsinki 90°. In Stockholm's outskirts, where the mercury rose to 95° for the first time since 1811, a heat-crazed elk burst out of the woods, plunged into a suburban swimming pool and splashed madly back and forth before finally being rescued by amused firemen. While Moscow shivered under cold blasts from the north that plunged...
...with Peking. Recently, Yugoslavia has even improved its traditionally hostile relations with neighboring Albania, Peking's surrogate in Europe (and the only European state that boycotted the Soviets' cherished Security Conference). Both Yugoslavia and Rumania pressed hard -and successfully-for a visit from President Ford immediately after Helsinki, as a symbolic reiteration of American support...