Word: urho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Britain set out to counter the six-nation European Common Market with a European free-trade area of its own-knitting together the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Switzerland and Austria-Finland badly wanted to join to make this Outer Seven an Outer Eight. But President Urho Kekkonen, a longtime neutralist who stoutly insists that Finland's future must be based on Soviet-Finnish "friendship," said nothing doing. Russia, Kekkonen argued, would be displeased if Finland participated in a non-Communist trade bloc...