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...Norwegians in turn refused to be cowed. Aalesund authorities began court proceedings against the offending boats (usual punishment is confiscation of the catch and a stiff fine of approximately $14,000 per poaching boat). The Russians advised Oslo that it was all "a regrettable misunderstanding," said there had been no premeditated poaching, and appealed to Norway to release the 15 Soviet boats. Relieved Norwegians stopped looking for deep political motives beneath the Red herring chase. "I think it's just plain fish-nothing else," said an official...
...Prizefighter Georges Carpentier ran the bar downstairs. Then there were fewer than 15 NATO divisions, only one of them combat ready; the rest were largely split up into occupation units. Then there was no plan, and no communications to set it in motion. A phone call to Oslo took twelve hours, and passed through the Soviet zone of Germany. All that stood between the Russians and the English Channel, as one officer put it, "was a group of committees...
Today Gruenther proclaims proudly: "Our resources are from four to five times what they were in those dark days of 1951." There is a plan, and "each unit knows what to do." The call to Oslo takes three minutes and goes direct. NATO has spent $1.9 billion building miles of road, miles of pipelines, supply depots and bases. Greece, Turkey and West Germany have joined NATO's ranks. Gruenther even makes a virtue out of his frustrations, pointing out the democratic problems in allocating costs for such things as airfields. "What should Norway pay for an airfield in Turkey...
Like every other Russian at Cortina, Moscow Speed-Skater Grishin, an engraver by trade, was honed to a fine edge. At Oslo, four years ago, the Soviets held off their Olympic entry because they knew they had yet to catch the West in winter sports. Now they were ready. Skiers had trained through their long winters, developed daring techniques on the jumps, stamina and speed in grinding crosscountry going. As for Grishin and his fellow skaters, they had raced and raced and raced more, until their thick thighs looked deformed with ropes of muscle...
...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...