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...French, British and Norwegian companies are very active in trying to strike ventures there," Dvurechensky said...
Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said last week that they could not be sure that Aung San Suu Kyi even knew she had been awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. But if she has access to a shortwave radio, she would have learned the news from overseas without delay. As the head of an opposition using "nonviolent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality," read the Nobel citation, Aung San Suu Kyi has become "one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." Within hours much of Burma -- which the ruling junta...
...Scotch to magazine covers, including portraits of Robert Bork, Pat Robertson and Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush for TIME. The other William Coupon is endlessly fascinated with ethnic groups whose cultures are as far from the mainstream as they can be. He has traveled to record dramatic images of Norwegian Lapps, , Australian Aborigines, Tarahumara Indians in Mexico and members of a dozen other groups...
...blue Norwegian eyes and white hair give him a theatrical air. His complexion sometimes radiates up to an alarming red, and he puffs a little after marching up the stairs. A large cast of characters of many ages flickers around his eyes and face. He strikes one as a struggling man, something like a difficult older brother. As he says, "The shifts take place with incredible speed. When I sit down at the table with my wife, do I speak to her as a self- pitying little boy or a victim? If I slip into the depressed victim...
...Robert and Carol Bly "went to hide out at the farm" on the edge of the Lutefisk Capital of the World. Lutefisk is a Norwegian dried fish, an item of sentimental immigrant nostalgia and distinctly an acquired taste. Madison has a large metal sculpture of the lutefisk beside the main road into town. (Another artistic item in town: a wooden sculpture with a sign that says INDIAN DONE BY LOCAL CHAIN-SAW ARTIST...