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...other forums, U.S. negotiators, on Reagan's orders, offered concessions to keep arms-control bargaining going. At the 35-nation Stockholm conference on ways to prevent accidental war in Europe, the U.S. accepted a Soviet formula for aerial and ground inspection of military maneuvers. An agreement in Stockholm would be the first security deal negotiated by the Reagan Administration. When far more important bilateral talks on nuclear arms resumed last Thursday in Geneva, the U.S. indicated it would make a new "interim" proposal that would reduce the total of long-range strategic weapons by 30%. The new offer would allow...
...Trotsky moved out, complaining that he no longer felt "moral solidarity" with Rivera's "anarchistic" views. In 1940 Rivera denounced Stalin as "the undertaker of the Revolution," the betrayer of Spain; by 1952 he was painting a saintly Uncle Joe with a peace dove on one hand and the Stockholm peace petition in the other. Rivera's political life had as many twists and turns as the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl. It inflated his personal myth but obscured his achievement as a formal artist--by which, as the political characters in his murals fade into historical remoteness, he must be judged...
...first warning came in Sweden. At 9 a.m. on Monday, April 28, technicians at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, 60 miles north of Stockholm, noticed disturbing signals blipping across their computer screens. Those signals revealed abnormally high levels of radiation, a sure sign of serious trouble. At first suspecting difficulties in their own reactors, the engineers searched frantically for a leak. When they found nothing, they lined up some 600 workers at the plant and tested them with a Geiger counter. This time the signals were even more alarming: the workers' clothing gave off radiation far above contamination levels. Outside...
...killing an American soldier and a West German woman and injuring more than 150 people. Responsibility was claimed by the Holger Meins Commando, which is linked to the Red Army Faction and had previously asserted that it was responsible for the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm in February...
Stendahl left the Divinity School in September 1984, after he was appointed Bishop of Stockholm earlier that spring. He had completed 30 years of service as a member of the faculty, including a term as Dean from...