Word: haugestad
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...passenger, saying: "This is interesting. Read it." The document was a report indicating that the European Economic Community would probably balk at the special terms Norway demands as a condition of its entry into the Common Market. The other passenger was Norway's leading Common Market opponent, Arne Haugestad, head of a pressure group called the People's Resistance Movement Against Membership in the EEC. "For your private information," Borten cautioned as he gave the paper to Haugestad...
...papers, and rumors soon followed that the Prime Minister himself was responsible for the leak. Borten, who had successfully headed Norway's four-party nonsocialist governing coalition since 1965, after 30 years of Labor Party rule, vigorously denied the story. But newsmen knew that he and Haugestad had met on the plane, and the rumors persisted. Finally, in a midnight declaration, Borten admitted that he had shown the report to Haugestad. "I have been guilty of an indiscretion," he confessed. Last week, after a series of emergency Cabinet meetings, Borten handed his resignation to King Olav V. Kjell Bondevik...
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