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...destroyers cruise year round at the Baltic end of the Danish Straits; Soviet destroyers patrol the Skagerrak from May to October, in effect controlling traffic from the North Atlantic in and out of the Baltic. Last year the Soviets held a major naval maneuver off the west coast of Denmark for the first time; Danish officials expect a repeat some time this summer. The Soviets have significantly bolstered their Baltic presence, adding six G-II-class submarines armed with nuclear missiles...
...made their own tally of nations for which no major violations were reported: of the 82 countries that now receive U.S. aid, human rights seem to be alive and well in only 23, barely one-quarter of the total. The 23 states: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Israel (except the occupied territories), Italy, Japan, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Venezuela and West Germany...
...cross-cultural social analysis of self-affirmed male homosexuals in Denmark, Holland and America, Martin Weinberg and Colin Williams (1974) accumulated a considerable amount of interesting data. Much of their evidence tends to contradict popular stereotypes...
...highest accolades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awarded a special prize to the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of its decade-long smallpox-eradication program. Even while they were accepting the prestigious $10,000 award in Manhattan last week, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and the Cleveland-born chief of the eradication program, Dr. Donald A. Henderson, were in touch with aides in the East African nation of Somalia, where the last two known cases of smallpox were discovered Oct. 29 and Nov. 4. If no further cases are reported, smallpox could become the first disease...
...months. In Norway, neighbors of the neat brick North Korean embassy in Oslo's West End had long been puzzled by the constant movement of cars in and out of the compound and by the sight of mission staffers struggling in the backyard with huge mysterious boxes. In Denmark, customs officials got suspicious last month when the North Koreans imported 2.5 million duty-free cigarettes, allegedly for the "personal use" of one staffer...