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...Harlem Brundtland, the prime minister of Norway, will be the featured speaker at Harvard's Commencement ceremonies this spring...
...Brundtland, a world leader on environmental matters, is expected to talk to the June 4 gathering of graduates about balancing economic growth and ecological well-being. She will come to Cambridge from an international Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...early favorite Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, a veteran U.N. figure who had his eye on the job for 20 years, no one had enough votes to force a runoff. The four Europeans on the ballot, including the first woman to be considered, Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, trailed badly...
Although Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Labor Party leader and two-time Prime Minister who was forming a new government, has long kept mum on the E.C. question, she will have a tough time sidestepping it for much longer. Within the European Free Trade Association, to which Norway belongs, sentiment for joining the Community is accelerating fast. Last year Austria announced its intention to apply, and Sweden followed suit two weeks ago. Finland is seriously pondering the issue, and a pro-E.C. initiative is gaining ground in Switzerland, the most resolutely standoffish country in the EFTA. Although fears still...
...long been entrenched, democracy has not proved invariably hospitable to women. Despite the growing number of women entering politics in the U.S., the country is just beginning the journey toward full equality. In the West, women like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland have had to struggle against the traditional demands of gender in order to impress their visions on national policies. For decades the Communist states of Europe boasted of political egalitarianism, making a show of filling token government posts with women. But revolution has torn down the facades, revealing just how cosmetic...