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...high speed by the Norwegian police to rendezvous points in and outside the capital. In January it was a wood-paneled 19th century rural estate, later a hotel near one of the capital's busiest intersections, a rural farmhouse and even the private residence of Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst. Holst's wife Marianne Heiberg was the leader of the Norwegian project study of the occupied territories and, along with her husband, became a key figure in the talks. Larsen and his wife Mona Juul, a Norwegian Foreign Ministry official, were also deeply involved...
...documents, the Israelis and the Palestinians shared plates of Norwegian salmon and wandered together in nearby woods. "To say the atmosphere was friendly," recalls Pundak, "is an understatement." The enemies drank wine and brandy together, watched the news and video movies on television and, when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat met the boy when Holst spent 10 days in Tunisia in June during an unofficial visit. Fond of children, the P.L.O. leader would perch Edvard on his lap during breaks in his talks with...
...Peres and Holst flew to the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu, California, to brief Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was amazed and swiftly telephoned the President, who expressed immediate support. Washington had been aware since the outset that secret talks were taking place, but had little idea of the pace and scope. "We gave them some inkling, but that's all," said a senior Israeli diplomat. The U.S. knew about four secret channels that the Israelis were operating with the P.L.O. and believed Israeli diplomats who said, in the words of a senior U.S. official, that nothing...
...concert was closed with Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra (1943), an alternately morose and satirical exploration of the space of the modern orchestra. The first movement began peremptorily, and gradually built to a climax of off beats and brass reminiscent of Holst...
Star-gazing students were welcomed into Science Center B last Wednesday to the strains of Gustav Holst's "The Planets." Okay, a pretty conservative choice as these things go. The sound came out of a compact disc player recently purchased by the Science Center. But then things got really weird...