Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have gathered for dinner. Many of the women are dressed in long gowns. The men are in dinner jackets and patent-leather pumps. It is a merry, excited, optimistic crowd. In the center, sitting at a table on a round, raised platform is a rather penguinesque, stolid son of Norwegian immigrants, Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson. It is difficult to conjure up a truly merry Senator Jackson, but as he smiles and nods to well-wishers, he is obviously pleased this evening, happy in his work, which is running flat-out for the presidency...
...fresh from a three-year term, has tried to rally Western support, seeking in particular, a sympathetic lawyer. The Christians' response has been quiet and ineffectual. The World Council of Churches requested information and permission to send an observer, but got no reply. The Vins family approved a Norwegian judge as counsel, but he and three members of Parliament who wanted to attend the trial were refused visas. Last month Baptist World Alliance leaders-in Moscow for the All-Union...
...economy can absorb. The government can spend some of its excess profits on social services. It can also reduce its steep income taxes (now ranging up to 90%). But University of Oslo Economist Erling Eide predicts that any reduction in taxation would lead to a severe inflation resulting from Norwegians' increased spending power. The only way to contain the inflation, Eide says, would be to revalue the krone to reduce the cost of foreign imports. Revaluation, though, would damage such Norwegian export industries as fish processing and paper by raising the prices of these commodities in foreign currencies. Significant...
...Norwegian government is trying hard to slow exploitation of its riches. Britain and other oil-hungry nations have drilled more than 330 exploratory wells in the North Sea. Norway has driven only 120-even though Statfjord and part of Ekofisk-two of the richest oilfields-lie under Norwegian waters...
Fish and Rigs. In addition, the government has imposed stiff fees for concession rights and royalty fees of 8% to 16% on every barrel of oil produced. It has also proposed an income tax of up to 91% on all revenues earned from oil pumped in Norwegian fields. Moreover, it has created a state-owned oil company, Statoil, that must be included as a partner in nearly all private drilling ventures. The government flatly forbids drilling north of the 62nd parallel, where most of the nation's 30,000 fishermen live and work. The fishermen fear that oil spills...