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Press Pool. The 250 Western publishers and broadcasters who gathered in Oslo last week for the 26th annual conference of the International Press Institute, however, are worried that the movement could become a campaign to replace straight reporting about the developing world with government-approved propaganda. At last fall's United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's General Conference in Nairobi, the Third World bloc tried to push through a Soviet-backed proposal endorsing greater government control of the international flow of news (a U.S. lobbying effort stalled the motion). The bloc did succeed, however, in gaining...
Lindsay attributed the Winthrop victory to team spirit. "Everybody shows up for the games so everyone has a sense where we're going to be." Alex "Hatchetman" Vik, varsity golfer and a former all-Oslo player, said "We outroughed Kirkland House...
Within days of her arrest, the Oslo government expelled six Russians, including the Soviet embassy's third secretary, A.K. Printsipalov, the KGB operative who was caught passing documents to Haavik. Last week still another Russian departed on a one-way trip to Moscow. He was G.F. Titov, officially a counselor in the Soviet embassy in Oslo but in fact the KGB spy master for the entire Norwegian operation...
Suspicions were aroused again just a few years ago, when Foreign Ministry officials began noting how uncannily well informed Soviet diplomats seemed to be on confidential Norwegian positions regarding European Community membership. Norwegian counterintelligence slapped a tight surveillance on Soviet diplomats in Oslo and eventually caught Printsipalov meeting with Haavik. After tracking the pair painstakingly for several months, they finally sprang their trap...
Investigators in Oslo speculate that Haavik resolved to get to Russia to be reunited with her soldier lover after he was repatriated-a plan she fulfilled when posted to the Norwegian embassy in Moscow. But the soldier was threatened with imprisonment-in Stalinist times a common fate for ex-P.O.W.s whose loyalty was deemed questionable. The KGB offered to help, promising that he would be safe if she performed some favors at the embassy. Haavik never saw her lover again, but she became ensnared in the KGB system. By 1949, when Norway entered NATO, she was ready with...