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...scrambled for explanations. The report by Interfax, a Russian news agency, cited an unidentified military source reporting that a missile launched from northern Europe was destroyed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST). The killer missile turned out to be a NASA-funded research rocket, launched from Oslo, Norway, to study the Northern lights. "We are a little puzzled by the report," said Erik Lanke, spokesman for the Norwegian Supreme Defense Command in Oslo after the Interfax report. Spokesmen for NATO, several European countries and President Clinton said they were looking into the matter. When the dust settled, Interfax...
...year ago this time, Nelson Mandela was standing amid a roar of adulation in Oslo as he received the Nobel Peace Prize, symbolizing the triumph of black African rights in his native land. Last week he had only words of hard truth for 2,000 blacks, many of them barefoot and clad in tatters, gathered at a soccer field among the shacks of Orange Farm, a township in the southern Transvaal. Seven months into his term as President of South Africa, the good times he promised have barely begun. "Don't expect us to do miracles," he told the crowd...
Gaarder, who is married and the father of two sons ages 10 and 18, teaches at a high school in Oslo. He wrote Sophie's World to fill a gap. Stores were full of New Age pap and other mystical mush, but there were no books that would introduce young people to serious philosophy. By trying to blend fantasy with head-cracking summaries of deep thought, Gaarder feared that he had "sat down between two stools. But I was mistaken. Sophie's World fell on top of all the stools...
...Bosnian hijacker today commandeered a Scandinavian plane with 129 passengers aboard before surrendering at day's end to Oslo police. He demanded that supply lines to Muslim areas in his troubled homeland be opened tohumanitarian aid. The hijacker took control of a Scandinavian Airlines System flight Thursday afternoon as it flew between the Norwegian towns of Bardufoss and Bodo. After 52 people were allowed off at Bodo, the plane flew 500 miles south to an Oslo airport. The hijacker claimed to have a grenade and threatened to blow up the plane if it was stormed by police. In a tape...
When, after days of speculation, the call from Oslo finally came, the recipients of this year's Nobel Peace Prize greeted the honor humbly...