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...determined are the peacemakers toiling to end Sri Lanka's 19-year civil war? On the eve of last week's peace talks in Oslo, the mother of a key mediator, Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen, died of cancer. Helgesen received a message from his father excusing him from the funeral. Don't worry about saying goodbye, he told his 34-year-old son. Stay there. Finish...
Favored Vermont ace Peter Kongsli fell on his last and longest jump of the day, losing his chance to better a short first jump. With superior style points, Vidar Nilsgard of Colorado took the individual title with 220.7 points, one ahead of Kongsli, who had not lost all year...
After a mid-week shake-up with the third Varsity, the reseated JV (Bow, Phil Tonks; No. 2 A1 Keith; No. 3 Bill Endicott; No. 4 Fred Fisher; No. 5 Tom Hodges; No. 6 Bob Baker; No. 7 Vidar Jorgenson; Stroke, Garrett Olmstead; Cox, Bill Terranova) jumped off the line to a quick one-length lead...
...captain of the Vidar, on reaching Stockholm, reported that his ship had been "struck by something under water with an awful shock"; and experts representing the Admiralty were at once despatched to examine the Vidar's slightly damaged hull. They reported that "every circumstance connected with the affair seems to point to a collision between the Vidar and the M-1 when the latter was on the point of rising to the surface...
...down in nearly similar circumstances by the U.S. coastwise steamer City of Rome. In this instance three of the submarine's crew escaped through the conning tower of the S-51 as she sank. The crew of the M1, less fortunate, perished to a man. Like the Vidar, the City of Rome was unharmed. The hulls of submarines are not so stout as those of surface ships...