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...Harvard National scholar and Fulbright scholar, Kelman studied at the University of Stockholm...
...been a relaxing evening for Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, 59, and his wife Lisbeth. They had just been to an evening showing of the new Swedish film The Brothers Mozart in a downtown Stockholm cinema and had decided to take a walk afterward. For the slight, hawk-nosed Swedish politician with a ready smile, it had always been a matter of pride that he sometimes permitted himself to wander freely about the capital, unencumbered by the phalanx of bodyguards that protect other European heads of government. As the Palmes walked along Sveavagen, Stockholm's well-lighted main thoroughfare...
...Palme was rushed to Sabbatsberg Hospital, where doctors struggled in vain to keep him alive. At six minutes past midnight Saturday morning he was declared dead. Palme thus became the first Swedish leader to be killed since King Gustav III was shot to death at a masked ball at Stockholm's opera house...
Refaat el Sayed seemed to come out of nowhere to become one of Sweden's most successful business executives. Born into a wealthy Egyptian family, he moved to Uppsala, near Stockholm, to study agricultural science in 1968. El Sayed attracted little attention until 1981, when he borrowed $5.3 million and bought a money-losing Swedish drug company called Fermenta. In four years he transformed it into a leading producer of antibiotics. His company's 1985 profits hit $43.2 million, and Sweden's national TV network honored him as the country's man of the year...
Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...