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...Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Europe is hardly shrinking. The European project is far from perfect and the E.U. currently faces many challenges, from bolstering the euro, to creating a stronger presence in the international political arena. But I take issue with the article's premise that Europe is absent from the world stage - rather alarmingly illustrated by your cover page illustration...
...Perhaps the presence of monitors on the ground would help them form an assessment - commissioners Mitchell, former U.S. senator Warren Rudman, European defense supremo and former NATO secretary general Javier Solana, former Turkish president Suleiman Demirel and Norwegian foreign minister Thorbjorn Jagland aren't about to don flak jackets and head into the battle zone - but the commission's priorities appear to be more diplomatic than investigative. Mitchell's team has spent the last two days meeting with Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, searching for solutions that will reduce the level of violence...
...center-right government of Thorbjorn Falldin eventually foundered during the worldwide recession following the 1979 oil shocks, and in 1982 Palme and his socialists were returned to power. Palme's economic policies, especially the creation of controversial union-dominated investment funds, sparked angry protests. Nonetheless, his mandate was renewed again only last September in one of the sweetest electoral triumphs of his career. "We've won the victory for the welfare state," he exulted...
...depended on U.S. moderates voting with the Right the S-D loss in Sweden in 1976 came about through the unified effort of moderate and conservative groups. Though the Swedish population as a whole votes toward the left end of the American political spectrum, the new prime minister Thorbjorn Falldin still had to manage an uneasy coalition consisting of the Liberals (Folkpartiet) the Conservatives (called the Moderates) and his own Center parts. This coalition government united only by its opposition to the Social Democrats, suffered the same in-fighting that has plagued the heterogeneous. Republican party since Reagan's election...
...Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin last week, was "the most flagrant violation of Swedish territory since World War II." Then Falldin added, "The violation was bad enough, but worse is the fact that the submarine most likely carried nuclear warheads [on its torpedoes], according to our investigations...