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Brandt, 57, is only the third head of government to win the world's highest humanitarian award.* The five-member Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, which selects the recipient, cited his efforts on behalf of the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, his signing of nonaggression treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union last year, and his moves toward easing tensions in divided Berlin. "Chancellor Brandt," said the committee's citation, "has stretched his hand forward in a policy of reconciliation between old enemies. He has made an outstanding effort to establish conditions for peace in Europe...
...award and its $87,000 cash dividend in Oslo on Dec. 10, the stage will be set for a thoroughly nostalgic scene. As a young journalist who had actively opposed Hitler, Brandt fled to Norway in 1933, became a citizen and later fought the Nazi invaders as a Norwegian major. He will deliver his acceptance speech in Norwegian-"My first language," as he is fond of saying. At his side will be his Norwegian-born wife...
...bleak coast of the Barents Sea, where the Soviet Union shares a common border with Norway near the roof of the world, the Norwegian defense force of 400 men is frequently witness to a disturbing scene. They watch on radar as the Soviets practice assaults on the coast of their Kola Peninsula, some 300 miles away. In the Soviet war games, the attacking force is always victorious and the defenders are always defeated...
That pressure is already being applied to Norway, the most exposed country on NATO's northern flank. For the past decade, the Soviet navy has staged big exercises in the Norwegian Sea, making the point that Norway, with no land connection to the rest of NATO, is at the mercy of whichever country rules the waves. Johan Jorgen Hoist, research director of the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute, warns that the Soviets intend "to push their naval defense line outwards to Iceland and the Faeroes," which could turn the Norwegian Sea into what he calls "a Soviet lake...
When Nixon took office in 1969, he made tentative contacts with the Chinese through the Norwegian embassy. Mr. Ole Aalgaard, Norwegian Ambassador to Peking at the time and now assistant delegate to the U.N., commented recently at a press seminar of the Committee for a New China Policy that the implications of the Nixon Doctrine intrigued Peking. Each nation became alert to such subtle signs as Peking's restraint in public denounciations of Nixon and Washington's use of the proper name the "People's Republic of China" instead of Red China. These changes led to the reopening...