Word: oberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oberg does not confine his activities to playing student. He fills the role of teacher as well by offering a seminar at the Institute of Politics entitled "Southeast Asia after 1975: Peace or War?" Most students today don't remember Vietnam." Oberg says, returning to his favorite subject. "Yet it played a tremendous role in the minds of an entire generation. What I am trying to do is look at it from a distance, hopefully as objectively as possible. But the emphasis will be on the future as well. After all, that is where the hope lies...
...addition, Oberg is writing an article on Cambodia that Foreign Affairs might publish and is working on a book about Vietnam. For this diplomat-turned scholar, the days are well-filled...
This summer, Oberg will return to Sweden and go back to work for the foreign service. But his career will have a lot to do with the Social Democrats' success in regaining the power they lost in 1976. Should Palme once again become Prime Minister. Oberg is likely to be made Foreign Minister, one State Department official says. The next election will be held in September and until then. Oberg will do "whatever the foreign ministery...
...Oberg shows as much passion for Swedish politics as he does for international affairs and obviously admires Palme greatly. Both men are international and share somewhat futuristic ideas about what a modern society should look like...
What Palme, Oberg and other Social Democrats are driving at is a move beyond present day ideologies. As Oberg says: "Neither capitalism nor communism has provided what people want. The rate of unemployment in the capitalist world shows this. And the suppression of democracy in Poland and the refusal in the East bloc as a whole to give the true working class its say in society is proof communism doesn't work...