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Unfortunately for Ford, the Helsinki Conference both coincided with, and helped to inspire, a curious rise in skepticism about the value of detente. The Communist triumphs in Viet Nam and Cambodia, the growing Communist threat in Portugal and, to a lesser extent in Italy, have apparently set off a reflex action in many Americans of taking their frustrations and disappointments out on the Soviets. While Moscow is hardly remote from any of these events, it is not the main villain. Part of the trouble is that detente, so highly touted by its originators, had aroused unrealistic expectations. On a more...
...loss of anti-Soviet intelligence bases in Turkey as "an American tragedy." Many sincere sympathizers with Israel also have taken a strong anti-Soviet stand because of Moscow's backing (in fact, relatively restrained lately) of the Arabs. Such observers see a paradox in the acceptance at Helsinki of Soviet territorial conquests in Eastern Europe while Israel is being pressured by many of the same world leaders, including Ford, to return lands it captured...
...another try for Turkish military aid back on the tracks in the Senate. He was the one who alerted the White House on the troubles over extending the Voting Rights Act. He helped along Ford's policy interests on energy and taxes while the President was off in Helsinki. Rocky could claim an expanding group of friends on the Hill. There were even cordial relations, if not agreement, between himself and conservatives like Barry Goldwater and John Tower...
From early morning until after midnight last Tuesday, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen practically camped at the Helsinki airport. Every 40 minutes or so, he dashed down to the tarmac to greet one foreign delegation after another as they arrived to attend the summit spectacular that marked the windup of the European Security Conference (TIME cover, Aug. 4). Fortunately for Kekkonen, most delegations showed up on time-and by air. But not all. In mid-afternoon Kekkonen raced into town to the railway station to shake hands with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who had chosen to make the 18-hour...
Dramatic Moment. The purpose of the big show in Helsinki was the signing of a 35-state declaration, negotiated over the past two years, that formalized the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. In perhaps the most dramatic moment, the 35 delegations arrived at the conference in handsome Finlandia House almost simultaneously Wednesday morning to begin the largest meeting of national leaders ever held in Europe. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bounded from his seat and pumped the hand of Leonid Brezhnev; moments later he greeted a buoyant President Gerald Ford in the same way. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson...