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...Harvard Divinity School will establish an endowed chair by next December honoring its former dean and the current Bishop of Stockholm, Krister Stendahl, officials said yesterday...
...kind of coincidence that police often depend upon to solve difficult crimes. A 22-year-old woman was walking along a street in central Stockholm shortly before midnight on Feb. 28 when a man ran by her and paused under a streetlight. In that brief instant, she got a good look at the person who only moments before may have gunned down Prime Minister Olof Palme. The woman turned out to be a portrait artist, and last week she helped police assemble a composite sketch of the suspected assassin. Copies of the computer- enhanced likeness were immediately transmitted around...
...measures since the murder include two bodyguards at all times in public for acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, who has replaced Palme as Social Democratic Party leader and will probably be named Prime Minister next week. Carlsson will speak at funeral services for Palme, scheduled for March 15 at Stockholm's city hall. A panoply of world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, will attend. In keeping with the slain Prime Minister's disdain for dictatorships, five countries--Chile, Afghanistan, Paraguay, Kampuchea and South Africa--were pointedly excluded from the ceremonies...
Condolences poured into Stockholm from all over the world, with many noting the irony that a man so devoted to peace and nonviolence could be assaulted in anger. President Ronald Reagan expressed his "great shock" and "sorrow in the face of this senseless act of violence." Said British Labor Party Spokesman George Foulkes: "It is an absolute tragedy. He was a very good man, a very peace-loving...
Returning home to Sweden, he received a law degree at the University of Stockholm in 195l and immediately plunged into Social Democratic politics. A protege of longtime Prime Minister Tage Erlander's, Palme rose swiftly. He won Cabinet rank in 1963, and when he replaced Erlander as Prime Minister six years later, became the youngest head of government in Europe. In 1976 a center-right coalition drove the socialists from office for the first time in 44 years. Palme led the opposition and worked as a troubleshooter in the Middle East for the United Nations...