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...prizes will be awarded in Oslo, Norway, and in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death...
...other charges were similar. At another press conference in Florence, after representatives of the official Orthodox Church had declared that there was total freedom of religion in the Soviet Union, I had said, "That, to put it mildly, is untrue." In Oslo, where I had gone to accept Andrei's Nobel Prize in 1975, I had said that the U.S.S.R. has national discrimination; I cited as one example discrimination against Jews who apply to institutions of higher learning. I had also said that there are two forms of money in the U.S.S.R., regular money and certificates that top people...
Many people were just plain scared. In Oslo, callers were on the phone to the State Institute for Radiation Hygiene after news reports told of an invisible radioactive cloud over the most densely populated part of Norway. Sample queries: "I am a mother of small children. What measures should I take against the radiation in the air?" "I am pregnant. Are the radiation beams dangerous to the child I am bearing?" Public-health assurances that the radiation was too low to pose a hazard failed to stem the concern. "Mass hysteria in a situation like this is not uncommon," said...
This is not to say that Scandinavians are prudish about sex per se. On any summer beach in Oslo fjord, topless swimming and sunbathing is common and unremarked. And the city has two nude beaches that are easily accessible by public transportation...
...Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an antinuclear organization founded by a Harvard professor and a Soviet doctor. The Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway announced that the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a worldwide consortium of doctors committed to banning nuclear weapons, won the gold medal and its $225,000 cash prize...