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When an assassin's bullet cut down popular Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, many Swedes assumed that it had crippled his ruling Social Democratic Party as well. Scandals plagued the government of his successor, the stolid Ingvar Carlsson, and a swing toward conservatism among young voters seemed to make a change all but inevitable...
...West Berlin nightclub, killing an American soldier and a West German woman and injuring more than 150 people. Responsibility was claimed by the Holger Meins Commando, which is linked to the Red Army Faction and had previously asserted that it was responsible for the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm in February...
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was described as a "symbol of decency in human affairs" by mourners who gathered at a memorial service at Harvard's Memorial Church on Saturday...
...woman was walking along a street in central Stockholm shortly before midnight on Feb. 28 when a man ran by her and paused under a streetlight. In that brief instant, she got a good look at the person who only moments before may have gunned down Prime Minister Olof Palme. The woman turned out to be a portrait artist, and last week she helped police assemble a composite sketch of the suspected assassin. Copies of the computer- enhanced likeness were immediately transmitted around the world by wire services. Said Stockholm Police Commissioner Hans Holmer: "This is the first witness...
...Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, who was promptly designated Palme's successor as party chief, announced that the government would be dissolved, but would act on an interim basis until parliament meets this week to choose a new Prime Minister. Said Carlsson: "This was a blow not just to Olof Palme and his family but to Sweden as an open society...