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Johan Helsingius' personal computer may be the most loathed machine in cyberspace. Cranks routinely E-mail bomb it, trying to level the IBM clone with millions of pages of gibberish. Hot-headed hackers dispatch bit-eating "worm" programs to Helsinki to search for and destroy the computer's precious electronic cargo. A few vengeful folks have even threatened Helsingius himself, for what would the machine be without...
Human Rights Watch-Helsinki, the international monitoring organization, accused Russian troops of assaulting Chechen civilians and torturing prisoners. Chechen officials had previously denied charges of Russian atrocities, but Chechen citizens told of looting and violent treatment at the hands of Russian troops. Human Rights Watch researchers checking out the allegations were themselves held at gunpoint by Russian soldiers, who confiscated their film and tapes. Russia's human rights commissioner, who is investigating the charges, has warned soldiers not to, "mete out mob law or even law and order...
...Washington, where support for Yeltsin has gradually given way to worry over the war's brutality, the State Department for the first time openly criticized the Yeltsin government, saying the military offensive in Chechnya violated the 1975 Helsinki accord and agreements reached last year by the 52-nation Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. In the Senate, new Foreign Relations Committee chairman Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina warned he would push to end U.S. aid to Russia if Yeltsin "can't control his people -- in terms of killing women, children and other innocent people...
Nixon's policy of detente with the Soviet Union led to a focus on arms control and human rights, which bore full fruit in the SALT treaty and the Helsinki accords signed under President Gerald R. Ford. Nixon's skilful diplomacy prevented the occupation of the Mideast by Soviet troops...
Tuesday: Took part in a seminar in Helsinki on the possible admission of Russia into the Council of Europe, then stopped by King's Kakadu Club, where he and his entourage unwound with several drinks and a strip show...