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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bergland, the stoic Norwegian, even gets a little poetic when he contemplates the fall drama. "American gold," he calls the soybeans, which sell for $6.57 per bu. and which we export at the rate of 1 billion bu. a year. "A storybook," the Secretary says of this. The Soviet leaders study it line by line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Where the Real Gold Is Mined | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

When Iran's revolutionary government closed down the U.S. missile monitoring stations in that country last February, American opponents of SALT II were fearful that verification of Soviet compliance with the pact had become difficult, if not downright impossible. The Norwegian military establishment has now offered to bridge the monitoring gap. Though nobody had asked Oslo, a Norwegian Defense Ministry spokesman declared that as a NATO ally, his country would be prepared to provide the U.S. with new listening posts and even with U-2 flights over the Soviet Union. The Norwegian military's proposal had been prompted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Good for Everyone | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Norwegian military's offer predictably angered the Soviets and, less predictably, annoyed its own civilian leaders. Norwegian Prime Minister Odvar Nordli stressed that the U.S. had made no formal request for listening stations or spy plane flights; he also pointed out that SALT II seems to call for inspection only by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. If the two signatories to the treaty should ask a third party to verify compliance with restrictions on missile modernization, then, said Nordli, "Norway ought to be willing." Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund was also critical of the position taken by the Defense Ministry, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Good for Everyone | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Still, the Norwegian military establishment maintained that its proposal was a good test of Moscow's willingness to permit effective verification of SALT II. "Sometimes the Soviets can't see what's plainly in their own best interest," insisted an Oslo Defense Ministry spokesman. "Inspection is good for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Good for Everyone | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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