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...Soviets also got Brandt to push their idea of a nuclear "free zone" in Scandinavia. NATO would agree not to install any weapons in the region, but the Soviets remain vague on whether they would dismantle any such arms on their side of the border. Franz Josef Strauss, the conservative candidate who opposed Schmidt in last year's election, charges that Brandt has allowed himself to become part of "Brezhnev's psychological warfare aimed at intimidating the West...
...package: a 13 in. by 13 in. by 6% in. cardboard box containing about 23 lbs. of basic foods, including canned meat, cooking oil, rice, sugar, flour, powdered milk and split peas. Some 600,000 packages, costing $12 each and funded by private donations from the U.S., Europe and Scandinavia, will be distributed in Poland over the next year...
...Mattus observes somewhat impishly, the Danish language does not even use the umlaut, but he "thought it gave more pizazz." In fact, Mattus had no connection with Denmark; his own family had emigrated from Poland. But on the tops of his ice-cream cartons he printed a map of Scandinavia, with a star marking Copenhagen and an arrow swooping toward the star. Unwary buyers of this costly marvel (which sells now for $1.65 a pint and up) could have been forgiven for assuming that they were getting Prince Hamlet's own recipe from the court at Elsinore...
...businesses close and urban dwellers flee to the Pyrenees and the seashore. French law provides two days of vacation for every month worked, or typically almost five weeks of holiday per year for nearly all employees. A month-long hiatus is also a tradition in Italy, West Germany, Scandinavia and Spain. In fact, Europeans have trouble comprehending the prevalence of shorter vacation spans...
This year's most popular European spots are Scandinavia, West Germany, Austria and France, all countries that were virtually ruled out in recent years by the dollar's weak purchasing power. In addition to the dollar's new might, visitors are also benefiting from a 1981 slowdown in inflation in several European countries. By contrast, high inflation has eroded the allure of last year's tourist meccas, Portugal and Spain, where consumer prices continue to climb steeply...