Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scandinavia, no concessions had to be wrung from the government or from private sources. During the German occupation, Denmark had saved some 7,000 Jews by spiriting them to Sweden; and before he disappeared in Russia, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen, had saved nearly 30,000 Hungarian Jews by arranging special trains and supplying false papers. Yet no matter how the commissioners praised members of the Danish resistance, the veterans kept insisting that they had only done "the normal thing." Conceded Christian Theologian Roy Eckardt, chairman of Lehigh University's religion department: "Perhaps it was the normal thing...
...lack of innovation is not the U.S.'s real problem, contrary to the assertions in Marshall Loeb's Executive View [May 14]. I run a lapidary supply business here in Sweden, and I have many letters from American companies that will not supply me with their wares because they don't export. I have had to find new sources in Japan or Germany or, in one case, open my own business in Colorado just to get the things I needed. I have been told that only 8% of American firms export; 80% of Swedish firms export...
...Nora, Sweden...
...France, where saboteurs had earlier blown up a $15 million nuclear reactor bound for Iraq, protesters from the Cherbourg suburb of Equeurdreville were urging the closing of another reprocessing plant. In Denmark, officials announced they were rethinking their plans for new plant construction, and in Sweden the atomic energy inspection board reported that two nuclear reactors similar to the one at Three Mile Island would have to be retrofitted with systems that would deflate any hydrogen gas bubbles...
...BORN. To Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, 33, and his German-born wife Queen Silvia, 35; their first son, second child; in Stockholm. Name: Carl Philip Edmund Bertil, Duke of Värmland...