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...that bit of casting news, Hollywood had a ready reply: Liv who? Ah, yes, the girl in all those Ingmar Bergman films. But wasn't she a trifle rarefied-an art-house actress? A specialist in gloomy Nordic agonies...
...about marriage," said Sweden's five-times-married Film Maker Ingmar Bergman to an interviewer. "It's utterly uninteresting, whereas the relationship between a man and a woman is always interesting." With a six-part TV series on marriage newly filmed, Bergman had his share of deep Nordic thoughts to expound: "A life relationship between a man and a woman has always resulted in their signing a contract entirely to the advantage of the man...because men, damn it, want to hang on to their privileges. The fantastic thing is that women haven't managed...
...nine. By a decisive 53.9% to 46.1%, Norwegians in a special referendum last week rejected membership in the European Economic Community. The vote cast doubt on the outcome of Denmark's EEC referendum this week and raised the possibility of a "unified" Europe without Nordic participation...
Last week's vote revived dreams of a neutral Nordic grouping of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Sweden has traditionally provided the impetus, but its attempts to form a Nordic defense alliance foundered in 1949 when Norway joined NATO. Last year Soviet pressure on Finland scuttled Swedish-backed attempts to create Nor-dek, a Nordic economic union. For the near future, Nordek is probably dead, but after a discreet interval, Sweden may well propose more intensive economic cooperation among Nordic nations...
...third major group opposing membership consisted of the environmentalists, the ideological left, those favoring regional cooperation with Sweden and the rest of the Nordic grouping over cooperation with the Continent, and those stressing nationalism pure and simple. All opposed bigness, technocracy and decisions being made about Norway by non-Norwegians, decisions that heretofore had been made in democratic form being made by bureaucrats and technicians...