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...have predicted that suddenly there would be no more black riots in the U.S.? Political terror is an obscure phenomenon, whose eruption and recession are without immediate explanation." The new terrorism may fade in time, but European security chiefs have no choice but to take a more pessimistic view. Stockholm is building a new passenger terminal at Arlanda Airport, for instance, that will have permanent facilities where passengers and their luggage can be routinely scanned, searched, stripped, prodded and X-rayed more swiftly than...
...most extreme and violent dissidents have set up headquarters in Sweden. Croatian terrorists assassinated the Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm last year, claimed responsibility for blowing up a Belgrade-bound airliner and a train headed for Zagreb in January, and planted a bomb at the Yugoslav tourist office in the Swedish capital in March. Swedish tourists have begun to shun Yugoslavia, particularly after one group promised to plant more bombs on planes flying to Belgrade this summer...
Bejerot is a researcher in social medicine at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute and an expert on the drug epidemics that have occurred periodically in nations all over the world. In a New York Times interview last week, he insisted that contrary to popular belief, the role of pushers in epidemic addiction is secondary. It is primarily the users-especially new users-who spread drug abuse by persuading their friends to join them in their mindless pursuit of euphoric highs. Sometimes, Bejerot says, it is even possible to trace waves of addiction to particular carriers. In 1949, for example...
There is probably not a single hotel room in Stockholm still available for the period from June 5 to 16. In fact, there are hardly any rooms still to be had within an hour's ride from the Swedish capital. Even the park benches in the Kungsträgården may be full. In what local officials are calling the biggest peaceable invasion in the city's 720-year history, Stockholm is expecting the arrival of 1,500 delegates and observers, 1,000 reporters, 350 U.N. officials and some 10,000 students, campers and other ecology enthusiasts...
...would establish a worldwide network of 100 stations to monitor air pollution; another would regulate all dumping of wastes into the oceans; still another would preserve cultural monuments like Cambodia's Angkor Wat. All in all, says Canada's Maurice Strong, the meeting's secretary general, "Stockholm will point up how man is going to manage the world's first technological civilization...