Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration was still trying to delay congressional action on sanctions, at least until after the European Community's September meeting. In the meantime, having previously suggested that it was thinking of sending a black Ambassador to Pretoria, Washington was embarrassed last week when a second reported candidate, Ambassador to Denmark Terence Todman, said he did not want...
...result of financial worries. By 1980, one-third of the men eligible for military service had been rejected because of neuroses. Hungary traditionally has had a high suicide rate; it now leads the world with 43.5 self-inflicted deaths per 100,000 people, one-third more than runner-up Denmark...
...Britain found a willing ally in West Germany, another of South Africa's leading commercial partners. Bonn consistently opposes trade sanctions as counterproductive and, in any event, considers them pointless in this case without the cooperation of the U.S. and Japan. Several of the smaller powers, including the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland, called in vain for the E.C. to take stronger action...
Ever since mustard gas seared the lungs of millions of soldiers during World War I, Europeans have agonized over the use of chemical weapons. The controversy seemed to revive last week, when Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands declared their opposition to the NATO defense ministers' endorsement of U.S. plans to resume the production of chemical weapons next year...
Farther to the north and east, rain and gentle spring snow was falling over parts of Finland and Sweden. From there, as well as from points south and west, from Norway and Denmark, came the same disquieting signals. Somewhere, some mysterious source was spewing dangerous radiation into the atmosphere, into the air that people and plants were breathing. By now thoroughly frightened, the Swedes quickly confirmed that the source was not in their country. They immediately turned their suspicions southward, to their powerful neighbor, the Soviet Union...