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...saying, "They got all this organized while I was up in Milwaukee. Not bad for a little jerkwater town like this." Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing to another son, David, a trencherman about the size of a post...
...informed Adolf Eichmann, the official in charge of Jewish extermination, that there were no objections on the part of the German foreign ministry to the deportation of thousands of French and stateless Jews to Aushwitz. He was also the man who rejected Sweden's offer to accept Norwegian Jews about to be sent to Nazi death camps, and he refused to intervene on behalf of Catholic priests who were sent to the camps. After the war, the Baron was deservedly convicted of being a Nazi war criminal and sent to prison...
...Wall Street Journal and all three TV networks, then returned from a quick trip to El Salvador for a Friday speech to the National Press Club. Regan logged 23 sessions with newsmagazines, columnists and other journalists, while Poindexter got himself interviewed by representatives of British, French, German, Turkish and Norwegian TV stations. He sought out American reporters so avidly that ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson, approached by Poindexter in a White House corridor, recoiled in mock horror and said, "No, no, you can't force me to interview...
...recently said that she "would love to" appoint the first woman bishop in the state's Lutheran Church, whose male clerics, she says, still "persecute" their female colleagues. Inger Pedersen, chairwoman of parliament's Justice Committee, is drafting an amendment to the constitution, which now limits inheritance of the Norwegian throne to men, to include female royal heirs. The change would mean that Crown Prince Harald's daughter, Princess Martha Louise, who turned 15 last week, could eventually become the first Queen of Norway...
...Norway's government-owned North Sea oil have reduced export earnings from almost $2.1 billion in 1985 to $1.2 billion this year. And she has put off some of her NATO allies by maintaining a cool distance from Washington. Last month she banned U.S. F-111 fighter- bombers from Norwegian airspace during allied military exercises...