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...always, many an attempt ended in tragedy. Near the border resort of Hohegeiss, a crowd of Swedish and Danish tourists watched horrified as a man, wheezing with exhaustion, struggled to climb a pole over the barbed wire. Rushing up with guns blazing, Red border guards kept pumping bullets into him even after he dropped to the ground, left the body for two hours in the weeds...
What damage could Wennerstrom's game have done to the U.S., NATO, and his own country? Though Sweden is not a NATO member, Wennerstrom had contact with Danish and Norwegian military men, probably knew a lot about the NATO defenses and weapons. He also knew Swedish defense sites and strengths, had access to key mobilization and communication plans. In Washington, he had access among other things, to detailed information on the U.S. Army's Hawk, radar-guided antiaircraft missile designed to knock down low-flying supersonic planes. The Russians are working hard to perfect a defense against...
Died. Frans Blom, 69, Danish explorer and archaeologist who went to Mexico in 1922, was so intrigued by the ruins of the ancient Mayas and by their nearly extinct descendants that he settled near the Guatemalan border, authored works on the Mayas (Tribes and Temples), raised two children from a Stone Age tribe in his home, training them in the ways of modern man so they could return as teachers to their people; of pneumonia; in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico...
When ripples trouble the stillness of an evening pond, the motion of the water sometimes startlingly reveals the gloomy and voracious depths beneath. The stories of Danish Author Isak Dinesen, who died last summer, are like that too. At their darkest, they open unforgettably on a decadent inner world of princely passion and atavistic fear. At their lightest, they still display a fine, curlicued surface...
...NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively if one-third of its crew is Portuguese, one-third Belgian and one-third, say, Danish? The thing is just not on. You might as well man a ship with a party of politicians...