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...Norwegian authorities reacted cautiously to the report. Albania, after all, is no friend of Russia's. But preliminary analysis of the broadcast's claims indicated some circumstantial support. For one thing, there had been earlier Norwegian reports of six red rockets being launched from the fjord; defense spokesmen said that such pyrotechnics are a normal method of communication between submarines wishing to avoid radio contact. For another, Norwegian officials disclosed that patrols had made strong sonar contacts with at least one submarine trying to leave the fjord on the night that Radio Tirana asserts both subs did depart...
Moscow shed no light on the puzzle. Before the Albanian explanation but after Norwegian vessels had dropped depth charges in response to positive sonar soundings, Tass called the air-sea hunt "just an expression of the usual war hysteria in the West." Perhaps significantly, though, at no time did the Kremlin specifically deny that a Soviet sub-or subs-might have been inside Norwegian waters. At week's end, the mystery remained at least as deep as Sogne Fjord's 600 fathoms...
...name rhymes with believe, achieve-or grieve. Also Eve. In Norwegian it means "life." It fits the face-the glints of crystalline fjords and upland meadows in the eyes and hair, the shadowy secrets around the wide, sensual mouth. It carries the aura of innocence, of candor, of mischief...
...Many Norwegians, less sexually liberated than their Swedish neighbors, were scandalized by Liv's unmarried motherhood. They harassed her in much the same way as Americans had harassed Ingrid Bergman 22 years before. Letters came in denouncing her as a sinner and a whore. Some told her that she should take the baby into the woods and leave it; others kindly suggested that she should kill herself as well. The Lutheran Church refused to allow the baby to be baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes...
...affair with Bergman, Liv resembled another famous Norwegian woman, Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Like Nora, Liv was loved and protected but also patronized. "I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald," said Ibsen's heroine to her husband. "But you would have it so." Like Nora, Liv rebelled. As Nora's husband commented shortly before she closed that famous door on her domestic life, "she is terribly self-willed, this sweet little person...