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...blame the Cubans for Miami's woes. After all, who botched up the Bay of Pigs and then virtually guaranteed Soviet hegemony in Cuba? You can't blame Haitians for "America fever." After all, it's the same disease that emptied half of Ireland, Scandinavia, numerous German principalities, southern Italy and southern Poland onto these shores. There are social and historical patterns at work here. Please don't blame South Florida...
...other hand, almost the only dolls included in this collection come from Europe and North America. Everyone in the Common Market, everyone in Scandinavia, almost the entire Eastern bloc--but not a single nation in Africa, or the Far East, or Latin or South America. There is a doll garbed in traditional Mexican costume--her skin is just as fair and her cheeks just as rosy as the Norwegian doll next to her on the shelf...
...aimed at the U.S., a group of Communist youths stopped last month outside the Soviet embassy in Rome to shout, "Comrade Brezhnev, cannons are useless, revolution is made by the masses!" Many of the placards at Rome's big Oct. 24 rally carried the rhyming couplet, Dalla Sicilia alia Scandinavia, no alia NATO e al patto di Varsavia (From Sicily to Scandinavia, no to NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...Finland's case, neutrality means following Moscow's lead in foreign affairs. Helsinki has responded warmly to the latest Soviet drive for a nuclear-free zone in Scandinavia. Finnish diplomats were conspicuously silent at the United Nations when that organization condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Soviet human rights abuses at home are never criticized publicly in Finland, even though Helsinki was the site of the 1975 international conference that finally wrote human rights observance into accords between the Soviet Union and the West...
...country for nearly half a century. He was the father of a peculiarly Finnish policy that he dubbed "active neutrality" and that his critics scorned as "Finlandization." In essence, Kekkonen blended Finland's foreign policy with Moscow's, endorsing a Soviet-promoted nuclear-free zone in Scandinavia, refusing to criticize the invasion of Afghanistan and keeping silent on Soviet human rights abuses in Eastern Europe. In turn, Moscow allowed Finland autonomy on most internal affairs, although quietly insisting that the Communist-dominated Finnish People's Democratic League be included in government coalitions. Kekkonen's supporters insist...