Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...royal wrath last week as he lashed out at Norway's Prime Minister for failing to stop the slaughter of baby seals in her country. Said the King: "If Gro Harlem Brundtland can't take care of the seal problem, how is she supposed to take care of the Norwegian people...
King Carl Gustaf's outburst, which came during a state visit to New Zealand, was prompted by a hard-hitting documentary on Norwegian sealing that had aired the previous week on North European television. The footage showed hunters stabbing baby and adult seals with ice picks and in some instances dragging the animals, only half dead, back to Norwegian flaying vessels. The King's comments were strong stuff, considering Norway's sensitivity to criticism from Sweden, its onetime colonial master and its archrival. Said Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson of the King, before rushing off to Norway on a fence...
...relief effort until you reach the spot here has been very good," said Sverre Kilde, a Norwegian U.N. officer. "But here on the spot there is no control...
International donors are slowly awakening to Sudan's plight. Norwegian People's Aid says it can get more than 1,000 tons of maize a month into the rebel-held south. World Vision, a private U.S. group, will send two shipments of food and medicine to the south. The World Food Program has started a limited airlift of a few thousand tons. But these donations provide only minimal relief...
...eight scientists aboard a sealing boat off the island of Jan Mayen, 640 miles west of Norway, peered through their binoculars last week and were elated. Arching through the icy waters were ten blue whales, the largest creatures on earth. Blues once flourished in the Norwegian and Barents seas but almost vanished from the area after intensive hunting by Norway and the Soviet Union...