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Stepped-up security measures since the murder include two bodyguards at all times in public for acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, who has replaced Palme as Social Democratic Party leader and will probably be named Prime Minister next week. Carlsson will speak at funeral services for Palme, scheduled for March 15 at Stockholm's city hall. A panoply of world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, will attend. In keeping with the slain Prime Minister's disdain for dictatorships, five countries--Chile, Afghanistan, Paraguay, Kampuchea and South Africa--were pointedly excluded...
...hung, reading: WHY MURDER A TRUE DEMOCRAT? "It is an almost unbelievable shock," said Ulf Adelsohn, leader of the conservative opposition in the country's one-house parliament. "Sweden will never be the same after this." Following an all-night meeting of key Swedish leaders, Acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, who was promptly designated Palme's successor as party chief, announced that the government would be dissolved, but would act on an interim basis until parliament meets this week to choose a new Prime Minister. Said Carlsson: "This was a blow not just to Olof Palme and his family...
...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...
...reports that a Soviet spy plane was crisscrossing the Baltic, presumably to attempt to make radio contact with the mystery vessel. Whatever it was, wherever it was, Stockholm remained determined to find out, no matter how long it took. "It's a. war of nerves," said Captain Sven Carlsson, the Swedish navy spokesman. "Time is on our side.'' -By James Kelly. Reported by Mary Johnson/Stockholm
...Anders Carlsson came through two minutes later to make it 4-2, and then Brugman's second, a pretty breakaway deke job, gave Yale its biggest lead and waved "goodbye" to those who didn't know what to feel...