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- <text id=89TT0556>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: World Notes:Scandinavia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 46
- World Notes
- SCANDINAVIA
- A Sovereign Plea for Seals
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Sweden's dapper King Carl XVI Gustaf has never had trouble
- ruling his own temper. But the characteristically circumspect
- monarch displayed a rare flash of royal wrath last week as he
- lashed out at Norway's Prime Minister for failing to stop the
- slaughter of baby seals in her country. Said the King: "If Gro
- Harlem Brundtland can't take care of the seal problem, how is
- she supposed to take care of the Norwegian people?"
- </p>
- <p> King Carl Gustaf's outburst, which came during a state visit
- to New Zealand, was prompted by a hard-hitting documentary on
- Norwegian sealing that had aired the previous week on North
- European television. The footage showed hunters stabbing baby
- and adult seals with ice picks and in some instances dragging
- the animals, only half dead, back to Norwegian flaying vessels.
- The King's comments were strong stuff, considering Norway's
- sensitivity to criticism from Sweden, its onetime colonial
- master and its archrival. Said Swedish Foreign Minister Sten
- Andersson of the King, before rushing off to Norway on a
- fence-mending mission: "He must have been very angry."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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