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When a leading Swedish newspaper, Expressen, ran two full pages dedicated to the "successes" of the Swedish Olympians, the space was blank. "There weren't any," read an explanation at the bottom of the pages. Swedish Alpine skier Pernilla Wiberg later won a gold medal in the women's giant slalom...
...daily, reported last week that he had been suffering from food poisoning, possibly an assassination attempt. But the Foreign Ministry quickly denied any illness, explaining that Gorbachev was simply away on vacation. He is scheduled to resume work in Moscow early this week. Late last week the Swedish daily Expressen, citing a Soviet doctor as its source, reported that Gorbachev had prolonged his vacation because his wife Raisa, 55, was suffering from complications following an appendectomy...
Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...
...referendum day last week, Swedes were so wearied by the campaign that Expressen, the nation's largest newspaper, editorialized: "The people are victims of overkill-let us vote and be done with it." So they did. When the 4.7 million ballots were counted, the pronukes had a clear majority: 58% voted yes, favoring completion of the country's half-finished nuclear program; only 39% voted for a proposal to abandon the country's reactor program...
...Alexander, and a daughter, Christina. Onassis' affair with Callas lasted nearly a decade, but by 1968, according to a friend, he was passionately in love with Jackie Kennedy. Their marriage prompted banner-and not always friendly-headlines throughout the world. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? asked Stockholm's Expressen...