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...three bureaucrats and a chauffeur-were given six days to pack up and get out. Foreign Ministry officials frostily informed North Korea's Ambassador to Stockholm, Kil Jae Gyong, who is also accredited to Oslo, that he was no longer welcome in Norway. Similar scenes took place in Helsinki and Copenhagen, and as of last week, twelve North Korean embassy staffers had been unceremoniously ordered home to Pyongyang...
Ford got into the jam in the course of answering Frankel's question about whether the Soviets had the better of the U.S. in the grain sales and the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which confirmed the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. The President easily came up with justification for the grain deals but ran into trouble trying to defend the Helsinki pact. He has clearly demonstrated in the past that he understands the realities of Eastern Europe, and he apparently meant to say, as he did several sentences later, that the U.S. "does not concede that those countries are under...
Because Moscow is highly allergic to surprises in its relations with Washington, it, too, slightly favors familiar Jerry Ford. Moscow has sniped at Carter, charging him with violating the "spirit of Helsinki" because he has urged the U.S. to use economic pressure against the Soviets. In reporting last week's debate, Pravda complained that Carter attacked Ford for "softness" in dealing with the U.S.S.R. while "pursuing the policy of detente." Ford's performance also came in for criticism; the party daily charged that he "did not contribute to a relaxation of tensions" by urging that the U.S. bargain...
...praise for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident Soviet writer whom Ford had refused to invite to the White House; criticism of pursuing détente?a word that Ford had banned ?without insisting on concurrent Soviet concessions; an attack on "secret agreements, hidden from our people"; and a reference to "Helsinki," where Ford had agreed to the 35-nation pact ratifying the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe...
Moscow may be tempted to make some concessions soon, in order to show progress in arms limitation in time for next June's Belgrade conference, at which the first two years' experience of the Helsinki accord is to be assessed. Unless there is progress on SALT or MBFR and an improvement in Soviet treatment of human-rights cases, it is likely, as a West German official predicts, that the "tone of the Belgrade meeting is not going to be very upbeat...