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DIED. Leif Stenberg, 53, reputed (but never convicted) Swedish crime boss of the 1970s, who received Europe's first mechanical-heart transplant seven months ago; of respiratory and circulatory ailments; in Stockholm...
...Nils Lundgren, vice president of Stockholm's Pkbanken, believes that West European countries are slowly creating conditions for steady, solid growth. Said Lundgren: "We are more inflation-proof now during the business upswings." Imports are cheaper, wage increases are modest, and governments are reducing budget deficits. At the same time, Lundgren found that Europeans, on the political left as well as the right, have learned to accept the need for free-market solutions, even if it means shutting down loss-making steel mills and shipyards. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor-of economics at the University of Paris Nord, also noted...
...irony was inevitable. While Olof Palme's life reflected his belief in an open society, his funeral was surrounded by the tightest security Stockholm had ever seen. As the hand-drawn catafalque carrying the slain Prime Minister's coffin wound through the streets, 2,000 police, paramilitary troops and army sharpshooters watched, guns at the ready, from street corners and rooftops. Half a million Swedes watched the procession, along with more than 600 foreign dignitaries, including 13 Presidents and 19 Prime Ministers. "There are few statesmen who have had such influence on international affairs and social change," said United Nations...
...Arbatov, who asserted that the summit "is not a symptom of improved relations but a test for worsening relations." Arbatov went from cynical to surly at a press conference when a man attempting to ask a question identified himself as a representative of the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Stockholm. "No," Arbatov snapped, "it is the Committee for anti-Soviet Jewry...
...ller-Westermann assembled most of the exhibit's 150 oils, watercolors and graphic works from the Munch Museum's own vast collection, and added items from private collections and Stockholm's Moderna Museet, where she is the head of international art. Together the works form a powerful-and often uncomfortable-record of six decades of Munch's explorations of pain and troubled sexuality...