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...gesture of solidarity with the artist, who had been warned against the plot by the police and moved to a safe hiding place already in November last year. "Yesterday's arrest of three people who, according to PET, were planning to kill one of the cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard, is deeply shocking and disturbing. It shows that there are presumably Islamic fanatics who are willing to make a reality of the threats and who respect neither freedom of speech nor the law," wrote national daily Politiken in its editorial. Politiken was among the 17 newspapers that ran a cartoon this week...
With the arrests and the renewed printing of the caricatures, particularly the most controversial one, Westergaard's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, the question also rose whether new anti-Danish protests would sweep the Middle East and Pakistan. Bjorn Moller, an expert on terrorism and the Middle East, believes this week's cartoons will not have the same effect. "I don't believe there is any major interest in escalating this event in the Arab countries. Last time it turned out to be a strategy that didn't work...
...already made an indelible mark: she presides over a government that is run, in large part, by women. Brundtland's 18-member Cabinet includes eight women, which gives Norway a higher proportion of females in top government positions than any other nation in the world. Says Brita Westergaard, head of Norway's Equal Status Council: "We are not just changing Norway. When people realize that this is possible in the Cabinet of one country, they must realize it is possible everywhere...
...JOHN WESTERGAARD Vice President ERA Associates, Inc. New York City...
...music itself, it cleverly combines astute humor with unpretentious craftsmanship. Westergaard's sly use of leit-motives and his jazz-like rhythms supply an effective and sardonic commentary on the action. The seven-piece orchestra played the difficult score incisively...