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...irony was inevitable. While Olof Palme's life reflected his belief in an open society, his funeral was surrounded by the tightest security Stockholm had ever seen. As the hand-drawn catafalque carrying the slain Prime Minister's coffin wound through the streets, 2,000 police, paramilitary troops and army sharpshooters watched, guns at the ready, from street corners and rooftops. Half a million Swedes watched the procession, along with more than 600 foreign dignitaries, including 13 Presidents and 19 Prime Ministers. "There are few statesmen who have had such influence on international affairs and social change," said United Nations...
...funds by Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical office. But his defiant stand did little to convince doubters of the Commission's ability to account cleanly for its €94 billion annual budget. Try Again SWEDEN Police investigating the stabbing murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh released suspect Per Olof Svensson and cleared him of involvement in the attack. A new suspect, Mijailo Mijailovic, was taken into custody. Mijailovic was convicted in 1997 for repeatedly stabbing his father, who survived. Nuclear Fallout IRAN U.N. nuclear experts discovered traces of weapons-grade uranium at a site west of the capital, Tehran...
...they kept their own coins; indeed, both are growing more than the euro zone. But the euro isn't to blame for Continental stagnation; the parlous finances and lack of reform in Germany, France and Italy are. "We are a small, orderly country that plays by the rules," says Olof Ruin, a Stockholm political scientist, "and there was skepticism over France and Germany's failure to abide by the rules." The absence of Sweden's 9 million people will hardly be noticed by the 300 million who currently use the euro. "It's now clear that the euro...
...Olof Svensson took a break from the soccer match on TV and stepped outside the pub to catch a breath of fresh air. That's when plainclothes police nabbed him in a Stockholm suburb last Tuesday night. Police say Svensson, although not formally charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with...
...CURIOUS (YELLOW) and I AM CURIOUS (BLUE). Olof Palme, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, appears in the highly controversial and celebrated 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow). The 1968 counterpart is just as erotic and just as blunt in its portrayal of contemporary youth. Directed by Vilgot SjĖman. Screenings Saturday Feb. 8. 7 pm and 9:30 pm, respectively. Tickets $7/students $5. No one under 18 admitted. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center...