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...International issue an immediate "clarification." The revised documents explicitly condemned the "brutal repression of civil rights" in Poland, and softened Brandt's position on El Salvador by leaving open the possibility for "free and honest elections." His authoritarian approach brought him into conflict with Swedish General Secretary Bernt Carlsson, 44. Early this year in Bonn, Carlsson pointedly reminded Brandt that "this is a Socialist International not a German International." In retaliation, Brandt forced Carlsson to step down last week...
Married. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 67, pioneering airman who flew Admiral Byrd on the 1928-30 Antarctica expedition, now a General Dynamics consultant; and Audrey Schipper, 44, market research director for Fairchild Publications; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...Died. Bernt Gulbrand Morterud, 101, Norwegian-born Chicago cabinetmaker, whose identical twin, Gulbrand, still lives on in Norway-a record of longevity, defying 1 billion to 1 odds; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Chicago...
...less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken, but he was ever anxious to head back to the Arctic. With explorer friends Sir Hubert Wilkins, Admiral Donald Mac-Millan, Colonel Bernt Balchen and Lowell Thomas, he had arrived in Alaska to make TV films when death came...
Famed, ruddy-cheeked, Old Polar Hand Bernt Balchen, colonel (ret.), U.S.A.F., who flew rescue missions with the 1925 Amundsen Arctic expedition, piloted Rear Admiral Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard...