Word: norwegians
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...sure, Fiennes and Burton had benefited from the largesse of scores of corporations and from technological support that did not exist when Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first man to travel to the South Pole in 1911. In addition to the Benjamin Bowring, the Transglobe Expedition had at its disposal everything from Land Rovers to a Boston Whaler, from short-wave radios to a satellite navigation system. But it did not take long for the team to discover the limits of these aids. As Fiennes told TIME last week, "If you set out and plan your journey into...
...Norwegian doctors, who had been working near a refugee camp in Sidon and were briefly taken prisoner by the Israelis, accused their captors of brutally maltreating the Palestinians. According to a BBC report, the Norwegians claimed that Israeli soldiers beat some Palestinian prisoners with clubs or lengths of rubber, kicked others unconscious and killed at least ten men before their eyes. Reflecting on such scenes, a Western ambassador in Beirut remarked sadly: "I ask myself what has happened to those Jews who were filled with spirit and light, who gave us hope and inspiration. Have they all gone? I come...
...Harlem Brundtland, 43, chairman of the Norwegian Labor Party and Prime Minister from February to October...
...remainder of the MFO troops arrived at week's end. They came from ten other countries, including Colombia (500 troops), The Netherlands (105), France (42), Italy (90), Uruguay (70) and Fiji (500). The men will be commanded by Lieut. General Fredrik Bull-Hansen, a lanky Norwegian who was first exposed to the complexities of the Middle East while serving in a force that supervised the Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire...
...February of 1973, two members of Harvard's then nationally ranked soccer team quit Not just the squad, but college. Two of the most talented of the Crimson's mind boggling lineup of international talent. Dragan Vujovic of Yugoslavia and Norwegian Bent Hinze, were not only worried that a Harvard education might have little practical use when they returned home, but also had decided they had seen enough of American college athletics...