FOREIGN POLICY: To the Summit After a Stinging Defeat Over Turkey

To the Summit

The 25-year search for an East-West accommodation—in Geneva and Paris, in Glassboro and Vladivostok—takes President Gerald R. Ford this week to the capital of Finland for a new round of that mixture of diplomacy and show business known as summitry (see THE WORLD). With 35 nations in attendance, the Helsinki conclave is being touted as the most spectacular since the Congress of Vienna, and yet because the preliminary negotiations have led to no real change in the current state of uneasy detente, the world is also being told that...

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