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DIED. Trygve Bratteli, 74, shoemaker's son who twice became Prime Minister of Norway; of a stroke; in Oslo. Known as the Norwegian Sphinx for his quiet authority, Bratteli organized his country's underground resistance to the Nazis in 1940; after his capture two years later, he survived six concentration camps. To a political opponent, the slight, ascetic Bratteli was "one of a dying race of social democrats who came from a poor background and made his way through the hard sweat of his own labor...
...production. After the Geneva meeting, Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani became chief salesman of the plan. He jetted to Lagos at the head of a 19-member delegation and tried to persuade the Nigerians to restore their crude-oil prices. They respectfully declined. So did officials in Oslo, the next stop on Yamani's campaign. No one, though, was willing to rule out a show of unity this week in Geneva. Says Constantine Fliakos, an oil-industry analyst for Merrill Lynch: "When things are easy, OPEC tends to be undisciplined. But it is always at its best...
...million bbl. In addition, North Sea oil output rose 13.5% during the first five months of this year. To meet those challenges, OPEC last week organized committees to press each member for lower production levels, and Saudi Arabian Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani agreed to ask London and Oslo for a rollback in North Sea production. Then, in a symbolic gesture of unity, the oil ministers allowed heavily indebted Nigeria to increase its daily production of 1.3 million bbl. by a total...
Before an audience of 450 in the University of Oslo's bright, marble-pillared Aula, or Great Hall, Nobel Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik lavished praise on the recipient of the 64th Nobel Peace Prize. Lech Walesa, said Aarvik, had raised "a burning torch, a shining name" to humanity's enduring dreams of freedom. Walesa, leader of Solidarity, the outlawed Polish independent trade union, did not hear those words. He had stayed behind in Gdansk for fear that the government would not allow him back into Poland...
...Sullivan is Electrocuted Despite Pope's Pleas. No water. No Sullivan. No visa: The Reagan Administration Rejects Visa Application from Nicaragua's Interior Minister. So goes the news on an ordinary day, a strange assembly that swoops down on one's life like cousins from Oslo one has never seen before, will never see again, and who, between planes, thought they would call to say hello...