Word: brundtland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harlem Brundtland dropped her paperwork, moved to the back of the plane, and for the next 45 minutes tended the victim. She swaddled him in blankets on the floor of the narrow aisle, administering oxygen, monitoring his pulse, ordering the pilots to radio Oslo for an ambulance. When another photographer tried to shoot the scene, her aides waved him off. This was not a photo...
...Netherlands and Turkey support the U.S., while Bonn has the backing of Italy, Greece and most of the other continental European countries; others, including Norway and Canada, are trying to broker a compromise. But Bush is unmoved. He reaffirmed his position in talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland last week, and again last Friday in a telephone conversation with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
...cruise missiles. Soviet military spokesmen refused to say whether any such weapons were aboard, but Moscow acted quickly to try to dispel international concerns. Only hours after returning home from London, Mikhail Gorbachev sent reassuring messages to President Bush, British Prime Minister Thatcher and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The power plant on the stricken sub had been shut down before the vessel sank, declared Gorbachev, who added, "The possibility of a nuclear explosion and radioactive pollution of the environment is excluded...
...never had trouble ruling his own temper. But the characteristically circumspect monarch displayed a rare flash of royal wrath last week as he lashed out at Norway's Prime Minister for failing to stop the slaughter of baby seals in her country. Said the King: "If Gro Harlem Brundtland can't take care of the seal problem, how is she supposed to take care of the Norwegian people...
Since 1981 Brundtland's Labor Party has been in the forefront of the drive for equality. The party adopted a rule requiring that at least 40% of its candidates for public office be women. So when Brundtland was appointed Prime Minister for the second time last May, she had no trouble finding qualified women to fill Cabinet posts. In Norway's 157-seat Storting (parliament), 34% of the members are now women, and the Labor Party's own parliamentary ranks are 41% female. The Prime Minister has taken abuse for her feminist campaigning -- in the past, male politicians disparagingly referred...