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...EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI: Results at the preliminary talks lead us to expect that the security conference could be held this year. The conference should also adopt measures concerning economic, scientific and cultural cooperation. We favor the creation of a permanent body for the development of European relations...
...volleying took place in two ostensibly separate but deeply interconnected European negotiations. In Helsinki, representatives of 34 states have resumed talks, after a month's holiday, on an agenda for the so-called Conference on European Security and Cooperation. The Soviets had pressed for such a conference for years, arguing that they wanted to help Europe establish its security on a basis of cooperation and mutual trust. But last week the Russians turned aside a number of Western proposals, offered by the Belgians with American, British and Dutch backing, that were designed to do just that...
Moscow's rebuff of the West's proposals at Helsinki came as no great surprise. Fearful of the already powerful pull of Western ideas, aspirations and affluence on their own populations, the East bloc regimes have been digging in against detente with the toughest ideological crackdown in years (TIME, Dec. 25). Still, the abrupt Soviet treatment of MBFR suggests that, detente or no, the West may have less leverage than it expected when it comes to prying significant concessions out of Moscow...
...Eastern Europe's jittery politburos see it, that is the West's wicked dream and the Soviet bloc's not improbable nightmare. In Helsinki, where delegates from 34 nations will next month resume talks on an agenda for the long-heralded European Security Conference (TIME, Dec. 4), the Western states have been urging negotiations toward a vastly increased flow of people and ideas across the ideological frontiers that have divided Europe for a quarter-century. But that is not exactly what Moscow was bargaining for when it embarked on its historic accommodation with the West. Thus, while the Communist regimes...
...social upheavals at home. The East bloc undertook this accommodation with full knowledge of the risk it faced in what West German Chancellor Willy Brandt calls Wandel Durch Annäherung?change through coming close. Actually, change is precisely what they hope to hold off; Moscow's chief aim at Helsinki is to legitimize the status quo in Eastern Europe. But now that they are dealing with the West, the Soviet-bloc regimes can no longer plausibly justify themselves by pointing to a threat posed by Western arms. Instead they plan to create an atmosphere of ideological siege...