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...nuclear physicist," the citation continued, "he has, with his special insight and responsibility, been able to speak out against the dangers inherent in the armaments race between states." The five-member Nobel committee, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, reportedly rejected 50 other candidates under consideration, including Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, for whom Soviet officials have been campaigning...
From early morning until after midnight last Tuesday, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen practically camped at the Helsinki airport. Every 40 minutes or so, he dashed down to the tarmac to greet one foreign delegation after another as they arrived to attend the summit spectacular that marked the windup of the European Security Conference (TIME cover, Aug. 4). Fortunately for Kekkonen, most delegations showed up on time-and by air. But not all. In mid-afternoon Kekkonen raced into town to the railway station to shake hands with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who had chosen to make the 18-hour...
Early in the planning stage, the Finns sensibly decided that the normal rules of protocol were too cumbersome for such a star-studded gathering. Instead they arranged everything according to alphabetical order (in French). The biggest protocol problem of all was President Urho Kekkonen's formal dinner on the first night. After two months of discussion, the Finns decided to ask each delegation to send its four most senior members to the dinner; the ranking member of each delegation will be seated closest to the host and to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at a gigantic C-shaped banquet...
FINLAND is anxious to advance its role as an active neutral. At present the Finns badly need to sign a trade treaty with the nine-nation Common Market. But Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has warned Finnish President Urho Kekkonen that the time is not right for Finland to make trade deals with the European Economic Community. Kekkonen, who places top foreign policy priority on maintaining friendly relations with the Kremlin, might be less reluctant to press ahead with an EEC trade treaty if Finland at the same time is the site of the security conference...
...lasts until May), long one-word palindromes (up to 15 letters) and long political arguments (it took four months to form a government after the 1970 election). By contrast, Finnish Cabinets themselves are exceedingly short-lived: the 55th in 54 years of independence was dissolved last October by President Urho Kekkonen, who himself has remained in power since 1956. Kekkonen acted primarily because the center-left coalition incumbents could not solve a row over lagging farm incomes...