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...week when Sweden charged that the Soviet submarine that ran aground in Swedish waters on Oct. 27 was probably carrying nuclear weapons. For the Soviets, who have been pushing hard for a Nordic nuclear free zone, the incident was an embarrassing blow to their peace offensive. Swedish Foreign Minister Ola Ullsten declared the affair "a frightening reminder of how close we are to the precipice, how great the risk is for a nuclear...
...leave his ship, even when entreated by two Soviet diplomats. The Swedes settled in for a possible siege, as Gushin awaited orders from his naval superiors. Although Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Yakovlev took what Swedish officials described as the "very unusual" step of apologizing for the incident, Foreign Minister Ola Ullsten later declared, "Of course that's not enough. We have to complete the interrogation...
...letters O.K. derive from the Greek words ola kala, which mean all is fine or everything is good. The initials, which were used by early Greek sailors, were soon picked up by many foreign navigators and became international...
...Liberal Party oppose. All three parties want to reduce Sweden's exorbitant income taxes, but cannot agree on how else to pay for Western Europe's most expensive welfare state. The most likely prospect seemed to be either another feeble minority government led by Premier Ola Ullsten, head of the Liberal Party, or a wobbly Center-Liberal coalition. But the betting was that neither could last much beyond next March, when a scheduled national referendum on nuclear energy might break the country's political stalemate wide open again...
...Yenisel River originates in the Tannu Ola Mountains of western Mongolia and runs approximately 2800 miles until reaching its point of outflow into the Arctic Ocean...