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Urho Kekkonen, Finnish ex-president
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HELSINKI, Finland (AP) Urho Kekkonen, 85, president of Finland
for more than 25 years who forged a policy of coexistence with Moscow
and cooperation with the West, died early today.
His son Matti said Mr. Kekkonen died at the lakeside
presidential home in Tamminiemi where he continued living after
retiring in 1981.
"Immediate cause of death was circulatory disorder in the
brain," the son said.
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, popularly known as UKK or Urkki, first was
elect...
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Urho Kekkonen, Finnish ex-president
Chicago Sun-Times
; HELSINKI, Finland (AP) Urho Kekkonen, 85, president of Finland for more than 25 years who forged a policy of coexistence with Moscow and cooperation with the West, died early today. His son Matti said Mr. Kekkonen died at the lakeside presidential home in Tamminiemi where he continued living after
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The future of the Soviet Union.
The Futurist
; Nationalistic forces have surged to the forefront of political life in the Soviet Union with breathtaking swiftness. Nationalist fervor has been fed by frustration over the economy and encouraged by the new freedom of expression, by the Communist party's loss of control over Soviet life, and by the
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Making up. (Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia)
The Economist (US)
; IN DECIDING to restore diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia has helped Mr Mikhail Gorbachev to claim something of a foreign-policy coup. Soviet diplomats have been wooing the Saudis for years. Now Mr Gorbachev can point to the final clinch as a bonus for his toughness with Iraq.
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The wolf at the door. (Soviet Union asking for assistance from the International Monetary Fund)
The Economist (US)
; The Soviet Union has long seen the IMF as a neo-imperialist tool. Now it is knocking on the IMF's door. Why are rich countries reluctant to let it in? ONLY a week before George Bush went to Moscow for his summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union applied to the International Monetary
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Anniversary of Soviet Union's Breakup Stirs Emotions in Russia.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ... Dave Montgomery, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 25--VOLGOGRAD, Russia -- Ten years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Pyotr ... people. (c) 2001, Knight Ridder. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
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The Birth of Urho Kekkonen.(former president of Finland)(Brief Article)
History Today
; September 3rd, 1900 FOR MOST of the last millennium Finland has been dominated by either Sweden or Russia, and in 1809 the country was absorbed into the empire of the Tsars. Urho Kekkonen, Finnish president for twenty-five years to 1981, was to lead a small country living in the shadow of a
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The emigres speak out; is the Soviet Union changing?
The Nation
; ... the magazine Kontinent, which he founded with Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. VLADIMIR VOINOVICH There is a lot of news in the Soviet Union, and nothingnew. Gorbachev calls on the people to make perestroika irreversible, but he hasn't taken a single ...
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Alternative Soviet futures. (forecast on Soviet Union's future political and military policy)
The Futurist
; The Soviet Union can be expected to move in radically new directions in the future, according to a political and intelligence analyst. In fact, he says, the only certainty is change. The range of future possibilities for the Soviet Union has never been greater, argues Arnold L. Horelick, senior
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Ten years after fall of Soviet Union, some Russians still yearn for the old days.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; VOLGOGRAD, Russia _ Ten years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Pyotr Alkhutov still mourns its passing. The 78-year-old faced death as a Soviet soldier to preserve his nation during one of World War II's decisive conflicts, the Battle of Stalingrad. On Dec. 25, 1991, as Soviet President Mikhail
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Flight from the Kremlin. (post-coup changes in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe) (editorial)
The Economist (US)
; ... But it is not just the republics that disagree about lines on maps. Inside Russia itself, bits of that huge republic want out. Mordovia ... a break-up too. Yugoslavia writ enormous That is not all, for maps reveal little about people. The schemers and planners of the ...
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