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...security leak of unprecedented proportions." To find out who was responsible, Nixon created the plumbers, an investigative unit designed to locate and seal off leaks. Yet the unauthorized disclosures continued. In July a Times story outlined the U.S. negotiating position at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Helsinki...
...General César Mendoza Durán, 54, is head of the paramilitary carabineros. A top horseman who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Mendoza has been noticeably milder in his condemnation of leftists than his fellow junta members. Explains a foreign diplomat: "Mendoza knows that when the army gets tired of guarding itself and goes back to its barracks, his people will have to keep order...
Died. Paavo Nurmi, 76, Finland's legendary long-distance runner who won seven individual gold medals in three Olympiads (during the 1920s), of heart disease; in Helsinki. As a poor youngster, Nurmi worked in a foundry and ran 50 miles a week to develop his stamina. With long, flowing strides, "the Flying Finn" streaked through his decade, setting 28 world marks and dominating every distance race from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon. Disqualified from the 1932 Olympics for "professionalism," he returned bitterly to Finland and made a fortune in the construction business...
Another leap forward was taken last July, when the Vatican was formally represented at the Helsinki conference on security and cooperation in Europe -the first international assembly in which the Vatican was an active participant, and not just an observer, since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. China has remained aloof. Despite a number of goodwill gestures by the Pope, the Chinese have shown little interest in dealing with the Vatican. How to establish such relations will clearly be one of the subjects on the agenda of the Alban Hills meeting...
...French commandant, speaking for his British and American colleagues as well, protested the incident, particularly he said, "when so many people in Europe hope for a lessening of tension." Added the Berliner Morgenpost: "The spirit of Helsinki may wave where it wants, but it is not waving in and around Berlin...