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...tension fairly crackled in the Stockholm courtroom as Lisbet Palme, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Olof Palme, was asked whether the man she had seen just after the shooting of her husband more than three years ago was present. "Yes," she answered, indicating Christer Pettersson, 42, a confessed drug addict who is charged with murdering Palme. "Are you sure?" asked the prosecutor. After looking briefly at Pettersson, Mrs. Palme answered with a second...
...fruitless search for the killer of Olof Palme has been a source of national anguish for Sweden since the Prime Minister was gunned down in February 1986. Last week hopes rose that the hunt was at an end when the Stockholm District Court arraigned Christer Pettersson, 41, an underworld debt collector with a criminal record that includes manslaughter. Said deputy chief prosecutor Axel Morath: "I think we now have...
...Throughout last week, dozens of ships and helicopters swept back and forth across Hars Bay, dropping depth charges to try to bring the mystery sub to the surface. "We don't intend to pat it on the back or just follow it out to sea," vowed Rear Admiral Christer Kirkegaard, leader of the hunt. "We want to find out where it came from and what it left down there...
That could some day become a standard question among men and women. Writing in the British journal Lancet last week, Researchers Christer Bergquist, Sven Johan Nillius and Leif Wide of the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, reported progress toward an unusual goal: the development of a nasal spray contraceptive. In their work, they used a derivative of a hormone known as LRH (for luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone). In high daily doses the experimental chemical inhibits ovulation by curtailing the secretion of still other hormones called gonadotropins, essential for the maturing and release of the eggs...
...minister he was draft exempt). After a year as pastor of a small basement church in Western Springs, Ill. (the active congregation more than doubled while Billy was there), he joined an organization called "Youth for Christ," founded in Chicago to combat delinquency among teenagers. As a Youth-for-Christer, Billy traveled all over the U.S. and the world, preaching in a different town every day. In 1946, the aging president of a small college (Northwestern Schools in Minneapolis) announced he thought it was God's will that Graham be his successor. Graham, who thought the job would sidetrack...