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- Jan. 24, 1994: Died:Johan Jorgen Holst
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 24, 1994 Ice Follies
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. Johan Jorgen Holst, 56, Norwegian Foreign Minister; of
- a stroke; in Oslo. Holst served as Norway's Foreign Minister
- for less than a year, but as the man who arranged the secret
- negotiations leading to last September's historic accord between
- Israel and the p.l.o., he played a crucial role in world politics.
- When Holst was appointed in April, some of his countrymen feared
- that he lacked the necessary savvy for the post. Those doubts
- were erased by the revelation of Holst's peacemaking efforts
- between the two Middle East antagonists. Among other unorthodox
- strategies, he was host of relaxed meetings in his own home,
- at which Israeli and Palestinian officials divided their time
- between impassioned negotiating and playing on the floor with
- his young son. Holst's grueling shuttle diplomacy may have caused
- his stroke.
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