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190.0. "Norway: Foreign Minister Frydenlund dies" by TLE::SAVAGE (Neil, @Spit Brook) Thu Feb 26 1987 14:56

Associated Press Thu 26-FEB-1987 11:16                        Obit-Frydenlund

                        Norway's Foreign Minister Dies
    
    OSLO, Norway (AP) - Knut Olav Frydenlund, foreign minister for four
    Labor Party governments since 1973, died today after suffering a
    cerebral hemmorhage. He was 59. 
    
    Frydenlund was stricken Wednesday at Oslo's Fornebu Airport after
    returning from a Nordic Council meeting in Helsinki, Finland. He was
    taken to Ullevaal Hospital unconscious and died there today. 
    
    Born in Drammen, Frydenlund received his law degree from Oslo
    University in 1950. He was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    in 1952, passed his foreign service examination the next year, and then
    served in the Norwegian Embassy in West Germany. He returned to the
    Foreign Ministry, serving as executive officer from 1956 to 1962. For
    several years, he was personal secretary to the late Foreign Minister
    Halvard Lange. 
    
    Frydenlund was a Labor Party representative in the Storting, or
    parliament, beginning in 1969. He was re-elected four times. He first
    was appointed Foreign Minister in 1973, and was re-appointed in 1976,
    1981 and 1986. 
    
    Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and Defense Minister Johan Joergen
    Holst cut short their visit to Tokyo because of Frydenlund's death.
    Trade Minister Kurt Mosbakk is temporarily filling in as acting Foreign
    Minister. Culture Minister Hallvard Bakke is acting prime minister
    until Mrs. Harlem Brundtland returns to Oslo on Friday. 

    According to the Agence France Press, the newly appointed Foreign
    Minister in Norway's minority Labor government is Thorvald Stoltenberg.
    Stoltenberg, 55, was formerly defense minister and deputy foreign
    minister.