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...opinion on a matter, Winston Churchill elegantly replied, "My views are in a harmonious process, which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events." Only fools stick to their ideas after they have been proved wrong. The world awaits evidence that Bush is no fool. Lennart Lordin Karlskrona, Sweden...
Moscow had snooped in Swedish waters before. In October 1981, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground near a naval base at Karlskrona. Ten days later, after a humiliating interrogation of the ship's captain, the indignant Swedes hauled the sub out to sea. Last June, the Swedish navy spent 14 days in futile pursuit of a reported sub in the Gulf of Bothnia. But the latest trespass raised the greatest fears. "This is so far inside a restricted area, so close to our main naval base, that it seems more aggressive and ruthless than anything before," declared Commander...
...twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin last week, was "the most flagrant violation of Swedish territory since World War II." Then Falldin added, "The violation was bad enough, but worse is the fact that the submarine most likely carried...
...presence fueled speculation that the submarine might have been eavesdropping on communications traffic at Karlskrona, or laying underwater navigational beacons in the tricky waters around the Blekinge archipelago, or updating Soviet knowledge of the area (especially since the Swedes habitually misdraw public charts of the sensitive waters, precisely to confuse the Soviets...
...Allt ("In Spite of All") printed a list of members of alleged Nazi cells at the Stockholm naval base, Skeppsholmen. They call themselves the Brown Navy, charged Editor Nerman, "are ready to turn our defenses over to foreign powers." Editor Nerman claimed to have proof of similar cells at Karlskrona, Göteborg, Malmö, Gotland...