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...Russia and abroad. His wife, Pediatrician Yelena Bonner, telephoned congratulations from Italy, where she is recovering from an operation for glaucoma. Connected by phone with Norwegian radio, he broadcast a message, in broken German, saying he was extremely pleased and proud. He added that he hoped to come to Oslo to receive the medal and the $140,000 prize money at the ceremony to be held Dec. 10, the 79th anniversary of the death of Swedish Munitions Merchant Alfred Nobel...
Somehow, Norway seems to have a lot of trouble with classified material. In 1971 the Norwegian Ministry of Defense inadvertently auctioned away some documents dealing with the missile air defense system for Oslo. Last year there was another auction of some old cabinets. They contained, among other things, detailed drawings from one of NATO's most important bases for maritime air intelligence in northern Norway. Last week embarrassed Norwegian officials admitted that for the past eight months, mail from the Joint Norwegian Military High Command and other military units intended for the West German embassy in Oslo had been...
Sleepy Clerk. The letters had been correctly addressed to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, but the street address was that of the East German embassy-"German Democratic Republic." The only explanation blushing officials could give was that a sleepy clerk had taken the information from the Oslo telephone book, which lists the two countries one above the other, and got mixed...
...rubble of the Third Reich with his dignity somewhat intact, it is unlikely that he will ever free himself completely from the opprobrium of having been so dedicated a servant of Nazism. When it was discovered in 1971, for example, that he had taken a hiking trip to Norway, Oslo promptly declared rum persona non grata...
Meanwhile, the government of another country has recognized that it cannot extract all that it would like from the oilmen. Norway had hoped to tax away 90% of the companies' North Sea profits. Last week, however, Oslo's Labor Party government reduced its preliminary tax proposal to 70% to 75% -still too high in the view of the oilmen, but at least a step in their direction...