Word: norwegians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman flew into Leopoldville, Swedish, Philippine and Italian fighter planes were headed toward the Congo for U.N. use, and 1,800 Indonesian infantrymen and a unit of 300 Norwegian antiaircraft gunners were en route to join the Congo force...
pleas" to stop "shipping Communist cargoes to Cuba." On Sept. 13 the Norwegian Shipowners' Association stated that no Norwegian ships had carried military equipment to Cuba. Furthermore, on Oct. i it pointed out that the very few calls made at Cuba by Norwegian ships had in most cases been dictated by those who had chartered the ships and not by the Norwegian shipowners. In a letter of the same day addressed to its members, "the Norwegian Shipowners' Association requests its members to the extent possible to take steps to secure that their ships will not be employed...
...Norwegian Shipowners' Association Oslo...
Seventeen years after the man whose name became a synonym for traitor was tried and shot for his Nazi collaboration, Norwegians learned the whereabouts of Vidkun Quisling's ashes. Long locked up by the Norwegian government in the fear that neo-Nazis might turn a burial site into a shrine, Quisling's ashes were finally released two years ago and laid to rest by his widow Maria in the family plot near Skien...
...lost a sense of worth and dignity in domestic service, and they have heard of the high pay in America. Many of them are interested in picking up some English, and even more in picking up a husband- as did Anne-Marie Rasmussen. who came from a small Norwegian fishing village to be a housemaid for Governor Nelson Rockefeller and ended up as his daughter...