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...issue, and a pro-E.C. initiative is gaining ground in Switzerland, the most resolutely standoffish country in the EFTA. Although fears still run high in Norway that the country would lose independence and control of its natural resources, concern is mounting that if everyone else joins up, Oslo could be left out in the cold...
...human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov, who was honored in 1975. One Soviet newspaper called that award "political pornography," and a statement by 72 of Sakharov's colleagues in the Soviet Academy of Sciences accused him of activities "aimed to undermine peace." The government refused to let him travel to Oslo for the ceremony, but his wife Yelena Bonner attended...
...prizes are presented December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896. The peace prize is given in Oslo, and the others in Stockholm...
...trajectory from Oslo ended a day or so later in the New York City subway station where a tourist was murdered. The sociopaths who killed him did not hate him. Not at all. They wanted money to go dancing at Roseland. That blank, murderous absence of hate holds terrors that did not come up in Oslo...
Elie Wiesel assembled an astonishing collection of political, intellectual and moral leaders in Oslo to talk about hate. The subject remains an ugly mystery...