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...blame Naipaul's publisher for hurrying a book out, even a recycled one with a slurpingly adulatory introduction that reads like a pitch from a candidate for official biographer. After all, it is not every day that someone on the publisher's list wins the Swedish lottery...
...Thanks and Get Lost H Jörgen Centerman was forced to resign as ceo of troubled Swiss-Swedish engineering firm ABB just one day after it sold its finance division to General Electric for 12.3 billion. He will be replaced by Jürgen Dormann...
SWEDEN Loaded Gun A court in Sweden's capital Stockholm remanded Kerim Chatty in custody until Sept. 16 on suspicion of aggravated firearms offences and conspiring to hijack an airliner. If found guilty, the 29-year-old Swedish citizen faces a maximum term of life in prison. Chatty, whose father is Tunisian, was caught trying to board a flight to Britain with a loaded 6.5-mm pistol in his hand luggage. The case against Chatty was presented to Chief Prosecutor Thomas Haggstrom, who said: "What we still need is a motive." Chatty has a criminal record that includes an assault...
DIED. PER ANGER, 88, Swedish diplomat who worked with Raoul Wallenberg to save thousands of Jews from Nazi death camps by issuing Swedish identity documents; in Stockholm. Wallenberg, who worked with Anger at the Swedish legation in Budapest, was arrested by the advancing Soviet army in 1945 and never heard from again. After the war, Anger led the effort to determine Wallenberg's fate, visiting Moscow in 1989 to make a personal appeal for information to Mikhail Gorbachev. Anger served as Sweden's ambassador to both Australia and Canada and was made an honorary Israeli citizen...
...CELEBRATE YOUR OWN ETHNICITY Whether you are Swedish, Scotch-Irish, Native American, Italian or a mixture of many cultures, show your children that everyone comes from somewhere--that every culture has its own language, foods, music and customs...