| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
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Associated Press Tue 12-MAY-1987 18:57 Norway-NATO
Police Use Tear Gas to Disperse Anti-NATO Demonstrators
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Police used tear gas Tuesday night to disperse
about 250 people demonstrating outside the U.S. Embassy against NATO
and the visit to Norway by U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.
"Weinberger go home" and "Norway out of NATO" were among slogans
shouted by the demonstrators.
The police took action after some of the demonstrators threw stones and
bottles at the embassy, smashing some windows. A police spokesman said
11 people were detained, fined and then released, but did not give the
amount of the fines.
NTB, the Norwegian news agency, reported the demonstration started
outside the embassy before Weinberger arrived for an overnight stop to
meet with U.S. Ambassador Robert D. Stuart. On Wednesday, Weinberger is
scheduled to fly to Stavanger, a western coastal city where defense
ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will meet Thursday
and Friday to discuss nuclear planning.
Police spokesman Ole J. Braathen was quoted by NTB as saying permission
had been granted for only 10 persons to hold a peaceful demonstration
outside the embassy building, located near the royal palace.
A Norwegian peace movement called No to Atomic Weapons, and a
pro-communist newspaper, Klassekampen, on Monday called for public
demonstrations against Weinberger in Oslo and Stavanger. Security
measures in connection with Weinberger's visit were extensive. Not even
his arrival time was announced.
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