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Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme now lives in a Stockholm apartment where Slssela Bok's parents used to reside...
...trip to the Soviet Union came on a whim, without the aid of an In-tourist expedition. Sitting in the Stockholm train station--my train back to Paris was due to depart within in the hour--an advertisement for the Trans-Siberian Railroad interrupted my reading...
...that difficult to purchase the obligatory visa which one needs to get in and out of Russia. Scurrying about downtown Stockholm to obtain the necessary forms for the Soviet consulate is about the only requirement. They want to make sure that you have hotel and train reservations. Once that's done, you indulge in a "Why do you want to go to our country?" conversation--"I want to open my eyes to the culture which I have heard so many terrible, awful things about"--and then receive the visa in a day for about 10 dollars. Surprisingly, it's that...
...weeks before Andropov's death, both superpowers had been delicately probing the possibilities of improved relations. Meeting for five hours during the Stockholm security conference in Europe last month, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko agreed to resume the Vienna talks in March. TIME has learned that Reagan authorized Shultz to sound Gromyko out on ways to resume START, including the possibility of a new framework for an agreement that differs dramatically from the Administration's existing proposal. Although Gromyko was so intransigent that Shultz could not pursue the idea, some American foreign policy analysts...
...appeared by his flower-decked coffin in Moscow's House of Trade Unions. His daughter Irina, married to an actor from Moscow's Taganka Theater, remained discreetly out of the public eye. Andropov's son Igor was a ranking member of the Soviet delegation to the Stockholm disarmament conference but also avoided the spotlight...