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DIED. Tage Erlander, 84, Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969, the longest premiership ever in a modern Western democracy; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Huddinge, Sweden. A little-known former encyclopedia editor and Cabinet member, Erlander barely squeaked through his election to the top post of Sweden's long-dominant Social Democratic Party but gradually won critics over with his astute leadership and folksy style. He led his nation into a period of economic boom and toward achievement of full employment and cradle-to-grave welfare -- goals that his successors found more elusive in a less robust...
...Russell was elected may or by the council after four weeks and eleven tallies. The longest it ever took to elect a mayor of Cambridge was four months and 1200 ballots...
Smith is due to stay on as chairman until 1990, when he reaches the mandatory-retirement age of 65. That would give him a 10 1/2-year reign, the longest since that of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who ruled from 1937 to 1956 and developed GM's structure and strategy. Based on his first five years, Smith's impact at General Motors may be as great as Sloan...
...both went to Roman Catholic girls' schools, and we both couldn't wait to move to New York City. After comparing notes on nuns and their influence on our formative years, Madonna and I got along fine." So well, in fact, that their conversations make up one of the longest interviews TIME has ever...
...Americans pictured in the terrorist photographs were: Terry Anderson, 37, Associated Press Beirut bureau chief; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic priest; and U.S. Embassy Official William Buckley, 56, who was abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, has been missing since December, but no mention of him was made last week. The two Frenchmen in the photographic lineup were Diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton...