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...formidably confident Mikhail Gorbachev showed a touch of meekness when the Norwegian ambassador called on him last week. "He came very gently toward us and asked if he could really believe the rumors," Dagfinn Stenseth recalled. "I told him if he was thinking of the Nobel Peace Prize, he could." A smiling Gorbachev later said that he was "deeply moved and excited" and that the honor would provide "support and inspiration" at a critical time in his reform efforts...
...ridiculed the communist system, but their works might make the First Lady's hair stand on end. Many of them, on display until Oct. 23, are scatological in nature; others are bitterly antireligious. Among the entries: a Soviet sketch featuring a man nailing himself to a cross and a Norwegian caricature of the Pope wearing a condom on his head. The exhibition, which was organized by WittyWorld, a U.S.-based magazine of international cartooning, also includes many sculpted depictions of male genitalia. Notes an American visitor: "These are people using a sexual vocabulary for the first time. It's like...
...Skogfjorden, 18-year-old "Torgeir," Daniel Howland from Bloomington, Minn., says, "I tried to hate it" when his parents sent him here at 14. He loved it, paid his own way with scholarship help for two more years, and today speaks fluent Norwegian as one of the teachers. He is speaking with difficulty just now because a beginning class has covered him with paper tags: TENNER on his teeth, EN MUNN on his mouth, EN NESE on his nose and so on. He is a huge, powerfully built youth, amiably playing the gawk for his adoring students...
...first blast erupted in the pump room near the stern of the Norwegian- registered Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
Incredibly, emergency crews were not able to attack the flames promptly with anything more effective than seawater. The Norwegian owners of the stricken tanker had hired a Rotterdam-based salvage firm to deal with the accident. Nozzles, hoses and pumps for fire-fighting-foam equipment had to be air shipped from the Netherlands. This took two days. Some oil-containment equipment was flown from London. Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company...