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Former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, acting as the U.N.'s peacemaker, returned from successive visits to the two warring capitals with an agreement in principle for freeing 63 merchant ships trapped in the Shatt al Arab waterway. Said he: "The first ray of hope." In Washington, a high State Department official was less sanguine: "It's a bloody low-level conflict, a bit like the trench warfare of World War I. It could...
...week. Tehran's Supreme Defense Council requested clarification about the details of a peace plan sponsored by seven Third World countries that it had previously rejected. The council also agreed to accept a visit this week from a United Nations peace delegation headed by former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme - "provided he comes on a fact-finding mission only," said a Tehran spokesman...
Bani-Sadr met with U.N. Secretary Kurt Waldheim's personal envoy, Olof Palme, who expressed U.N. concern over the consequences of continued warfare. Palme will also visit the war zone today, the Iranian news agency said yesterday...
More ambitious was an effort by Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, Swedish Social Democratic Party Leader Olof Palme and Spanish Socialist Workers Party Leader Felipe González, who flew to Iran to talk with Banisadr and other government officials on an ostensible "fact-finding" mission. Later, on his way home, Kreisky said that in regard to the hostages the group had made its "deep criticism clear...
...hostages and payment of damages to the U.S. Tehran, which does not recognize the court's jurisdiction, is expected to defy the order. But some hopes for a break in the crisis were raised at week's end when three prominent Socialist party leaders-Sweden's Olof Palme, Spain's Felipe Gonzalez and Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky-met in Vienna and discussed the possibility of flying together to Tehran to probe the chances for the hostages' liberation...