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...were driven to Zavidovo, the Politburo hunting preserve-the Soviet Camp David-some 90 miles northeast of Moscow. This was intended as a great honor. No Western leader had ever been invited to Zavidovo; the only other foreigners to visit it, I was told, had been Tito and President Urho Kekkonen of Finland. Our hosts did their best to convey that good relations with the U.S. meant a great deal to them...
...carpenter and the holder of a Ph.D. in sociology, last week won 50.1% of the vote, enough to be assured of becoming his country's next President when Finland's 301-member electoral college meets this week. Then Koivisto will officially succeed Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, who resigned in October because of crippling arteriosclerosis after leading Finland for a quarter-century...
...editorial in Pravda last Friday was as unsubtle as it was intrusive. It noted that Finland (pop. 4.8 million) must choose a new President in January to succeed Urho Kekkonen, 81, who stepped down from the office last month after 25 years, for reasons of ill health. Then the Soviet Communist Party's official newspaper baldly proclaimed its own favorite candidate for Kekkonen's job: Ahti Karjalainen, 58, acting president of the Bank of Finland, a member of Kekkonen's Center Party and a onetime protege of the ex-President...
There was only one item on the agenda last week as seven Finnish Cabinet members gathered in emergency session in Helsinki's Government House: acceptance of a resignation letter written in the shaky hand of President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, a victim for the past few years of progressive hardening of the arteries. Although inevitable, Kekkonen's departure still shocked many of the 4.8 million Finns, who cannot remember any other presidential figure than the tall, bald, once athletic man who has guided Finland since...
...process of choosing Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, the Nobel Committee scrutinized 50 nominees, including Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, and the beleaguered committee of Soviet dissidents who have monitored the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords. The selection committee, chosen - at Nobel's behest - by the Norwegian parliament, cloaks its deliberations in se crecy but draws on a wide range of sources for nominees. Among those consulted: representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, officials of various governments, scholars and previous Peace Prize laureates. Sadat, says Nobel Institute Director Jacob Sverdrup, received "between ten and 20" nominations...