Word: scandinavia
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...glance at prevailing wind patterns confirmed their fear. For several days, currents of air had been whipping up from the Black Sea, across the Ukraine, over the Baltic and into Scandinavia. But when the Swedes and their neighbors demanded an explanation from Moscow, they were met by denials and stony silence. For six hours, as officials throughout Scandinavia insisted that something was dangerously amiss, the Soviets steadfastly maintained that nothing untoward had happened...
...planned to spend their 30th wedding anniversary on a $4,000 Mediterranean cruise this month, but switched to a $1,000 jaunt to Toronto instead and saved the rest of the money. Herbert and Judith Monheit, of Elkins Park, Pa., changed their May vacation destination from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia at the urging of family members. Says Herbert: "It sort of wore on us. I know the odds (of a terrorist attack) are infinitesimal, but why take the chance...
...have recently returned from an extended residence in Norway. Scandinavian social and political values, I found, offer a vital alternative to American liberalism. Certainly, in matters of sexuality and sexual equality, Scandinavia seems far ahead...
Jaded skiers, take heart. A civilized but still adventurous alternative, long pursued in the Alps and in Scandinavia, is catching on in the U.S. Skiers trek across the snow for several days, covering a few miles a day and sleeping overnight in huts and tents high in the mountains. Accommodations range from the rustic to the comfortable, complete with cocktails and elaborate meals. Though hut-to-hut skiing can be found throughout the northern U.S., it is most popular in the West. "The huts are really in vogue," says Dick Jackson, head of a ski-tour company in Aspen, Colo...
...atmosphere in the Norway Suite of Oslo's Scandinavia Hotel was tense. The occasion: a press conference for Cardiologists Dr. Bernard Lown of the U.S. and Dr. Yevgeni Chazov of the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the group that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists were haranguing Chazov for having signed a 1973 letter that attacked Andrei Sakharov, the dissident Soviet physicist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Suddenly, a Soviet television reporter collapsed onto the floor...