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...made their first known mistake: they killed the wrong man. For weeks the team had been tracking down the chief of European operations for Black September. They thought they would be led to him when they began following a Black September agent from southern Europe to Stockholm, then to Oslo and finally to a small Norwegian resort city, Lillehammer. There, in a public bath, the Septembrist approached another Arab, Ahmed Bouchiki, 30, who looked like the Black September chief. Realizing his mistake, the agent stammered an apology and left. Bouchiki sensed that he had been checked out for some purpose...
...police think they may have been responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old boy. Two "trailers," who had provided security for the killers, also made their getaway. But others were caught. Acting on tips, police picked up four of the Israeli conspirators at the Oslo airport; they carried large sums of money as well as false passports. Two others were apprehended in the apartment of an Israeli embassy official in Oslo...
...King Olav V, 70, and a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; and Crown Princess Sonja, 36, a dress merchant's daughter who married Harald in 1968 in spite of King Olav's opposition: their second child, a hoped-for prince; in Oslo...
...makes building a pipeline to Norway impossible. Two weeks ago, the Norwegian Parliament approved a proposal to pipe oil from its Ekofisk fields to Britain and gas to Germany. By 1980, sales of North Sea oil could be providing the equivalent of $100 annual income for every Norwegian. The Oslo government is trying to increase the take by insisting on a 50% interest in all drilling operations, and is considering demanding that drillers buy equipment and supplies from Norwegian firms unless prices are uncompetitive. Some oilmen now call Norwegians "the blue-eyed Arabs of the North...
...press interviews and excerpts from her autobiography in Oslo's Aftenposten, Actress Liv Ullmann proves herself a perceptive critic of American men. Henry Kissinger: "Next to Ingmar Bergman, he is the most interesting man I have ever met. He is surrounded by a fascinating aura, a strange field of light, and catches you in some kind of invisible net." George McGovern: When he talks, "the words just keep coming and coming as if he hopes that a little life and truth will sneak through." Senator Ted Kennedy: "Has red and tired eyes. He has short, nervous laughter, sounds like...