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...Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, the featured speaker at Harvard's 1992 Commencement exercises, has come under fire for her country's open defiance of a recent international ban on all commercial whaling...
...turns out, Kriah, Hirschfeld and Pundak were acquainted with members of the Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science, which had sociologists and scientists studying living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hirschfeld contacted Terje Roed Larsen, head of the institute, who pressed his government contacts at home and came back with encouraging news. "If you need our support," Larsen told Hirschfeld, "we'll get the Norwegian government to give you all the facilities you need...
...Pundak, together with the Palestinians led by Kriah, headed for Oslo in January. During the next eight months, they met 14 times in sessions lasting two to three days. Ushered through on separate flights so they would not be recognized, the delegates were escorted at high speed by the Norwegian police to rendezvous points in and outside the capital. In January it was a wood-paneled 19th century rural estate, later a hotel near one of the capital's busiest intersections, a rural farmhouse and even the private residence of Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst. Holst's wife Marianne Heiberg...
Meanwhile, the work of hammering out a draft proposal was wearing down animosities. The Norwegians enhanced the chances for a breakthrough by keeping the atmosphere intimate. Thus, after plowing through reams of documents, the Israelis and the Palestinians shared plates of Norwegian salmon and wandered together in nearby woods. "To say the atmosphere was friendly," recalls Pundak, "is an understatement." The enemies drank wine and brandy together, watched the news and video movies on television and, when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat...
...that the Israelis were operating with the P.L.O. and believed Israeli diplomats who said, in the words of a senior U.S. official, that nothing "had particularly jelled." What the Clinton Administration did not count on was the persistence of both sides in seeking a deal -- and the depths of Norwegian hospitality...