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	Kalevi Sorsa - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Taisto Kalevi Sorsa (December 21, 1930 - January 16, 2004) was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972-1975, 1977-1979, 1982-1983 and 1983-1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister.
		Before a meteoric rise to the top of Finnish politics Kalevi Sorsa worked as a publishing editor, with his greatest "claim to fame" being to turn down the first novel of Kalle Päätalo, which turned out to be one of the greatest Finnish bestsellers of all time.
		Sorsa was brought in from this relative obscurity by Rafael Paasio to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of politics.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kalevi_Sorsa (454 words)

	Kalevi Sorsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taisto Kalevi Sorsa (December 21, 1930 - January 16, 2004) was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972-1975, 1977-1979, 1982-1983 and 1983-1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister.
		Sorsa was brought in from this relative obscurity by Rafael Paasio to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of politics.
		Kalevi Sorsa affiliated himself very prominently with the project, in a manner that would have undoubtedly assured him a great deal of credit for its inception, if it had turned out to be a success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalevi_Sorsa (462 words)

	Kalevi Sorsa, at 73; Finnish ex-premier - The Boston Globe
		Kalevi Sorsa, at 73; Finnish ex-premier - The Boston Globe
		Sorsa headed four coalition governments from 1972 to 1987 and led the Social Democrats, Finland's largest party, for 12 years.
		Sorsa also worked for the United Nations as a program specialist in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization from 1959 to 1965.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/01/27/kalevi_sorsa_at_73_finnish_ex_premier (127 words)

	Kalevi Sorsa - International statesman - Kalevi Sorsa Säätiö
		Kalevi Sorsa’s public reforms were characterised by growth optimism and a belief in the ideals of equality.
		Sorsa was Vice President of the SI from 1980 to 1996.
		Sorsa’s last official international mission for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when he was already retired, was to lead secret negotiations for a resolution to the Cyprus question.
	www.sorsafoundation.fi /tpl_site_01.asp?lang=3&s=41&sua=1 (645 words)

	Blog of Death: Kalevi Sorsa
		Kalevi Sorsa, Finland's longest-serving prime minister, died on Jan. 16.
		Sorsa studied journalism and political science, but dropped out of school before graduating.
		Sorsa was elected to Parliament in 1970 and named chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000720.html (213 words)

	Guardian \| Kalevi Sorsa
		The social democrat Kalevi Sorsa, who has died aged 73, was the longest-serving prime minister in Finnish history.
		Sorsa's rapid rise was due more to ability and luck than planning and ambition.
		At the same time, Sorsa kept the unruly leftwing of the Social Democrats in order, and split the Communist party by inviting them to join his centre-left coalition.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4873049-103684,00.html (779 words)

	Campus: Viihde vetää... 1/1
		1980-luvun lopussa Sorsa lanseerasi käsitteen "infokratia", jota hän ei milloinkaan tarkemmin määritellyt.
		Sorsa sanoo ymmärtävänsä toimittajia, jotka hakevat iskeviä ja yleisöä vetäviä otsikoita.
		Sorsa heittikin, että Suomessa on kolme joukkoa, joihin kansa ei luota: pankinjohtajat, poliitikot ja toimittajat.
	www.uta.fi /campus/952/media.html (290 words)

	Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's obituary for Kalevi Sorsa, former Finnish Prime Minister, 17 January 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalevi Sorsa was a statesman whose finest years were in in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Kalevi Sorsa's work was characterised by democratic values, ideological conviction and by extensive and profound involvement in societal debate.
		Sorsa held culture in high esteem, based his actions on democracy, built up the Finnish economy and was a man of influence internationally.
	www.statsradet.fi /vn/liston/print.lsp?l=en&r=58231 (173 words)

	(Taisto) Kalevi Sorsa Biography (1930–2004) Online Encyclopedia Article About (Taisto) Kalevi Sorsa Biography ...
		He is credited with helping to build the foundations of the Finnish welfare state.
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/047/Taisto-Kalevi-Sorsa.html (223 words)

	Kalevi Sorsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sorsa was brought in from this relative obscurity by to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of politics.
		During the 1970s Finland started an experiment of state capitalism called which was to have utilized Finnish high-tech know-how to mass produce television screens.
		This page was last modified 21:40, 16 Jun 2005.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kalevi_Sorsa (499 words)

	Kalevi Sorsa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the most strongwilled but also thinskinned public figures, Sorsa had numerous fractious relations with other politicians and the whole of the (Click link for more info and facts about media) media, which he lambasted by coining a pejorative epithet "infokratia".
		Analogously he had good relations with politicians he could hold in sway, and who enforced his policies, although he tolerated very little independence of thought in his underlings.
		During the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s Finland started an experiment of (An economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production) state capitalism called Valco which was to have utilized Finnish high-tech know-how to mass produce television screens.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kalevi_sorsa.htm (529 words)

	Political Leaders: Finland
		Onni Alfred Hiltunen 1944-1946 (+1971) Emil Albert Skog 1946-1957 (+1981) Väinö Alfred Tanner 1957-1963 (+1966) Kustaa Rafael Paasio 1963-1975 (+1980) Taisto Kalevi Sorsa 1975-1987 (+2004) Pertti Kullervo Paasio 1987-1991 Ulf Ludwig Sundqvist 1991-1993 Paavo Tapio Lipponen 1993-2005 Eero Olavi Heinäluoma 2005-
		Olavi Päivänsalo 1958-1964 Ahti Tele 1964-1967 Eino Sares 1967-1970 Olavi Majlander 1970-1973 (+1978) Raino Westerholm 1973-1982 Esko Kalevi Almgren 1982-1989 Toimi Olavi Kankaanniemi 1989-1995 Johan Bjarne Kallis 1995-2004 Päivi Maria Räsänen 2004-
		SKDL ceased to exist in 1990 as it merged with to SKP to form VAS.
	www.terra.es /personal2/monolith/finland.htm (566 words)

	Finland The Social Democratic Party - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Kalevi Sorsa, a leading Social Democrat and former prime minister and minister of foreign affair
		During the 1970s, the SDP moved closer to the center in Finnish politics as a result of the departure of some of the party's members for groups farther to the left and the cautious pragmatic leadership of Kalevi Sorsa, who became party chairman in 1975.
		Sorsa, who held this position until 1987, served from the mid-1970s until the late 1980s as either prime minister or foreign minister in all governments, which helped to remove any doubts about the party's suitability for governing.
	www.photius.com /countries/finland/government/finland_government_the_social_democrati~42.html (1179 words)

	Secrets of the Central Committee [Free Republic]
		Sorsa consistently maintains positions friend-ly to the USSR and the CPSU, promotes the development of Soviet-Finnish relations, and fosters stable contacts between the SDPF and our party.
		It is not unlikely, moreover, that Sorsa was "Moscow’s man" in the Socialist International, where, as vice president of that body, he would have exercised enormous influence.
		And in the center of that center was Kalevi Sorsa, coordinating the Socialist International’s activities in matters of détente and disarmament while "confidentially collaborating" with the CPSU on these very issues.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38f8838b5843.htm (1613 words)

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		Heiner Köberich, Pavol Müller, Kalevi Sorsa, Myriam Busselot and Arnulf Wahlstrom represented the EPF Executive.
		Kalevi Sorsa was elected chairman of the Appeal committee in 2001 and though the committee has not dealt with any cases, Kalevi has given valuable inputs to different cases discussed and decided by the EC.
		Kalevi Sorsa, Appeal Committee Chairman * Accepted unanimous 8) Election.Great Britain proposed that all elections should be by secret ballot even if there was only one candidate.
	www.europowerlifting.org /conrep03.doc (3486 words)

	Finland Finland in the Era of Consensus, 1966-81 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		Political conflicts among the parties, however, still kept a workable coalition from being formed, and, as a result, a minority SDP government was created with Paasio as prime minister.
		The Sorsa government held together until the 1975 parliamentary election, an uncommonly long time in recent Finnish history.
		The Miettunen government fell in 1977 because of Finland's continuing economic difficulties, and a center-left government was formed under Kalevi Sorsa, Finland's sixtieth government in sixty years.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/finland/finland_history_finland_in_the_era_of_consensus_1966_81.html (2195 words)

	Faith: The Newsletter of the ILRS: Spring 2002
		Consensus, Freedom, and the Poor – address by Kalevi Sorsa, Vice-President of the Socialist International and former Prime Minister of Finland
		Sorsa is a Vice-President of the Socialist International, and former Prime Minister of Finland.
		I was very excited when the organisers of this Congress proposed the theme to me, because it covers the essence of today's societal debate, both in political, i.e.
	ilrs.org /faith/f2k2.1.html (1391 words)

	The Finnish Labour Archives
		The prize “Archive Act of the Year” in 2004 was granted to Mrs Irene Sorsa, who had donated her late husband´s substancial and remarkable archives to the Finnish Labour Archives.
		The large archives of Mr Sorsa collected from his ex-office included 12 removal boxes of materials and manuscripts.
		With the guidance of Mrs Sorsa the director of the archives Mr Esa Lahtinen and researcher Mrs Marjaliisa Hentilä made a trip to Mr Sorsa´s summer cottage in Heinola to collect the remaining papers, e.g.
	www.tyark.fi /englanti.html (3482 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1977: Finland
		Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
		On May 15, President Urho Kekkonen appointed a five-party popular front government under the premiership of Kalevi Sorsa, a Social Democrat.
		The new cabinet succeeded the minority centrist government led by Premier Martti Miettunen, which had assumed office in September 1976.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741582928/1977_Finland.html (159 words)

	NewsRoom Finland
		But Matomäki now thinks the time has come to reveal the truth.
		Kalevi Sorsa, prime minister in the 1980s, also remembers that it was the United States that was behind the stoppage.
		It was no real secret but foreign policy issues were of a sensitive nature," Sorsa told Hufvudstadsbladet.
	virtual.finland.fi /stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=2816&group=Kotimaa (527 words)

	East-Germany Intelligence Connections in Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		President on Finland Tarja Halonen, and ex-Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen (Parliamentary Speaker) and Kalevi Sorsa." comments an internet source.
		Seppo Nevala from Finnish Security Police was working close to Kalevi Sorsa, thus he must have been aware of the Stasi connections years ago." Finnish Socialist Democrats follow pattern like Stasi and KGP, but they needed and still need both intelligence to operate and make their way to the top of decision making.
		Stasi people have been found from the top of Finnish Society: as a sitting President, ex-Prime Minister (Parliamentary Speaker), and so on.
	talkaboutgovernment.com /group/alt.politics.org.nsa/messages/16864.html (692 words)

	Cyprus News Agency: News in English (PM), 97-02-27
		Nicosia, Feb 27 (CNA) -- Foreign Minister Alecos Michaelides said the Cyprus problem is entering a new phase and for this reason Cyprus needs the support and the political will of all those who would like the implementation of the UN resolutions.
		The Minister was speaking after a meeting here today with Finnish Special Envoy for Cyprus, Kalevi Sorsa, who is on a fact-finding mission in Cyprus to prepare a report for his country's Foreign Ministry by May.
		On his part, Sorsa said they discussed the question of Cyprus' entry into the European Union.
	www.hri.org /news/cyprus/cna/1997/97-02-27_1.cna.html (2049 words)

	SDP source code (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The code below is the core of their program.
		Maybe it can be more easily understood if you remember that social democratic ideology has already reached it's utopia, culminating in Finland 1983 as Kalevi Sorsa, a former leader of the party put it: "Socialism doesn't get any better than this." The history since then has proved him right.
		The whole source code can be downloaded from www.justdoit.gov and all questions should be sent to sdp@climax.gov
	www.geocities.com /wix_teller/sdp.html (178 words)

	tBLOG - Everybody's Favorite Blog
		He had a speaking engagement at a Philadelphia hotel for the Congress of Tomorrow group and couldn't make it to pay his respects to Kalevi Sorsa.
		Sorsa, Charles and Saleem may not have been leaders with the pull and power of Reagan.
		And, of course, there is a very unique Franco-American relationship that is incomparable to how we get along with the Finns, Dominicans and Iraqis.
	chairmankc.tblog.com (4211 words)

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