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 Biography for Olof Palme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olaf Palme won his first term as prime minister in 1968 and served until 1976; he was reelected prime minister in 1982, and again in September 1985.
Palme was also tireless in his efforts to promote international action against apartheid –; especially in the aftermath of the Soweto massacre of 1976, and at the height of South African civil unrest beginning in 1984.
Tragically, on February 28, 1986, in Stockholm, Olaf Palme was assassinated at the age of 59.
www.brandt21forum.info /Bio-Palme.htm   (557 words)

  
 ikilled
Palme was slain by a lone gunman on February 28, 1986, as he and his wife were walking without security along a main street in Stockholm after attending a late evening cinema performance.
But Lars Nyhlen, head of the special Swedish police task force in charge of the continuing official investigation of the Palme case, was cautious in drawing any conclusion from the latest evidence, saying no new facts had emerged and no arrests were anticipated.
Christer Pettersson, a convicted criminal with a history of substance abuse, was identified by Palme's wife as the killer.
www.dispatch.co.za /2003/01/21/foreign/IKILLED.HTM   (326 words)

  
 Olaf Palme
Swedish politician Olaf Palme was born in Stockholm and received most of his education in the United States.
Palme was a dominant figure in Swedish politics.
Palme strongly criticized US involvement in Vietnam and was equally critical of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Palme.html   (132 words)

  
 OLAF PALME
As social democrat, Palme held several ministerial posts before becoming Prime Minister in 1969.
Palme had a number of controversial views, criticizing United States in the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons and the apartheid politics in South Africa, while applauding the PLO and Fidel Castro.
This was the first murder of a Swedish politician since Axel von Fersen in 1810, and the first assassination of a Swedish head of government since King Gustav III of Sweden was killed in 1792.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/OLAF+PALME   (190 words)

  
 Olof Palme:  Worldly Premier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olof Palme was born to an upper-class family in Sweden in 1927.
As he took office, Palme said, "The soup will not be eaten as hot as it’s cooked," as a metaphor to suggest that his policies may not be as radical as his first impression.
Olof Palme had been enjoying the freedom of being able to walk around freely in the capital, unlike most other leaders who were constantly accompanied by bodyguards.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/mia/olafpalme.htm   (1623 words)

  
 Olof Palme Unsolved Case
Olof Palme is considered one of the great heroes within the Swedish social democracy.
The Legacy of Olof Palme -- The frail offspring of a wealthy conservative family grew up to become the dynamic leader of Sweden's labor movement-- and the object of intense hatred from reactionary forces at home and abroad.
Palme also opposed the nuclear arms race and South African apartheid and championed the Palestine Liberation Army and Castro's Cuba.
www.karisable.com /palme.htm   (777 words)

  
 Sweden Offers Free Speech Refuge To US Officials
On October 15, the Swedish Parliament appropriated 500 million dollars for the "Palme Plan." Named for former Swedish president Olaf Palme, it promotes the virtues of free and honest speech among government officials in underdeveloped democracies.
Palme, who was Carlsson's political mentor, believed his greatest failure as president was his inability, during the Vietnam War, to persuade U.S. officialdom of the virtues of public candor.
"Palme believed that if the national security bureaucracy had not been cowed into silence in the face of a torrent of deceit from a determined White House, the U.S. would never have invaded and destroyed Vietnam," Carlsson said.
www.rense.com /general32/sdln.htm   (788 words)

  
 Bush, Drugs, and Serial Murder
Olaf Palme, for example, found himself in an untenable position as the chief enforcer of the United Nations arms embargo on Iran and Iraq at the same time he was privy to Bush's covert weapons trafficking to Iran.
Nonetheless, it soon emerged in a South African courtroom, where a Colonel Eugene de Kock was on trial for a series of apartheid-era assassinations, that one Craig Williamson was responsible for the Olaf Palme hit.
Together with one James Anthony White, who was later named as the actual assassin of Palme, Ricci and Williamson ran an operation in South Africa known as Longreach, which spied on anti-apartheid activists, and smuggled weapons into South Africa through George Bush's networks.
www.geocities.com /thomas_rooney2001/Bush.html   (1400 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Palme ex-suspect dies in hospital
The 57-year-old was cleared on appeal of charges that he gunned down Mr Palme outside a Stockholm cinema in 1986.
He was cleared of the charge in 1989 after an appeals court ruled that evidence given by Mr Palme's wife, identifying Pettersson as the assassin, was unsound.
The left-leaning Mr Palme was one of Sweden's most popular leaders and his murder shocked the country.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3701210.stm   (253 words)

  
 Arms & Assassinations, by Zola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
To let Palme know the noble purpose that would be served, North outlined for him the whole Contra-supply operation.
Now, one doesn't have to lament the demise of socialist Olaf Palme to question the propriety of an employee of the US National Security Council having a foreign head of state assassinated because he wouldn't properly falsify end-user certificates.
Palme failed to cooperate and threatened to tell, and died.
www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/cr-drugs2.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Kaisariani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kaisariani is located about 7 km from downtown Athens, about 4 km SW of Katechaki Avenue 4 km from the Hymettus Ring (number 65) which is part of the Attiki Odos private superhighway network and 6 km S of Kifissias Avenue.
The city is accessed with Olaf Palme Avenue.
The area was made up of farmlands and some forests dominated the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaisariani   (302 words)

  
 Palme - BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olof Palme, the Swedish premier and leader of the Social Democratic Part was an -After the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Bertil Wedin (or
Sven Olof Joachim Palme was born on Jan. 30, 1927, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Olof Palme was Prime Minister of Sweden several times, from 1969 until Olof Palme was an unusually colourful political personality by Swedish standards.
justtojoin.com /jtj/palme.html   (252 words)

  
 S. African spy implicated in death of Sweden's Palme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
PRETORIA, South Africa -- Eugene de Kock, a former death squad leader, dropped another courtroom bombshell Thursday by implicating an apartheid-era South African spy in the still-unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme a decade ago.
Palme was shot once in the back with a.357-caliber Magnum pistol while walking home from a Stockholm cinema with his wife on Feb. 28, 1986.
But Palme had been fiercely critical of apartheid and had fought to impose comprehensive trade and cultural sanctions against the white minority regime in Pretoria.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/09/27/palme.html   (834 words)

  
 tribuneindia... World
A Palestinian police officer who raped a five-year-old boy was executed by firing squad on Friday, just hours after he was convicted and condemned to death.
“The assassination of Olaf Palme was ordered by my former wife Kesire, according to information received after the attack,” Ocalan told a magistrate yesterday during questioning at the Imrali island prison in the sea of Marmara where he was being held, the paper said.
Palme was gunned down by an unidentified assailant while walking down a busy street in central Stockholm with his wife, after leaving a cinema on February 28, 1986.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99mar01/world.htm   (2783 words)

  
  Table 3: 21 Select Assassinations Relevant to Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olaf Palme, a major leader of the international disarmament movement, was gunned down on a street at night in 1986 after leaving a movie (his wife was also wounded).
The Swedish government approached an international expert in covert assassinations in 1988 to query him, but that investigation was stopped by what he describes as a whitewash.
The latest theory is that agents of the South African secret police did the deed, in retaliation for Palme's support of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
www.gzmn.org /v0000018.htm   (4456 words)

  
 Palme - S. La Palme Designs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olof Palme, conducted by late Mahmut Baksi and Translated by Iskender Ozisk.
Olof Palme was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 30th January, 1927.
The Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") is the name of the highest prize given to a This particular Palme d'Or was awarded in retrospect at the 2002 festival.
siteslinks.com /q/palme.htm   (434 words)

  
 Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Prime Minister Olaf Palme came to power in 1969 and introduced constitutional reforms which reduced parliament from two chambers to one in 1971 and removed the last of the monarch's constitutional powers in 1975.
Olaf Palme's Social Democrats returned with a minority government in 1982 and were faced with worsening relations with the USSR due to suspected violations of Swedish territorial waters.
He was re-elected with a reduce majority in 1988 and for the first time, the Green Party won representation in the Riksdag but after mounting opposition to economic policies, the government resigned, leaving him as caretaker prime minister.
www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Europe-Scandinavia/Sweden/History.htm   (936 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Cops sceptical about new Palme-SA link
Swedish police were sceptical on Monday of claims by a Swedish businessman that a South African security agent killed former prime minister Olaf Palme.
Palme was shot and killed in downtown Stockholm February 28, 1986, as he walked home from a cinema with his wife.
He said the group gave him information that showed an unnamed former security agent killed Palme, allegedly because of his vociferous support of the African National Congress and speeches railing against apartheid.
iafrica.com /news/sa/202596.htm   (389 words)

  
 untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
I was visiting an organization Called the Olaf Palme Peace Foundation is based in Accra, Ghana.
Osronko Nana-Yabani is the Executive Director of the Olaf Palme Peace Foundation and has been very instrumental in leading various peace initiatives in Accra and in the countryside.
They recognize that all levels of the society must have their needs met in order for there to be comprehensive peace in the community.
www.ucandanc.org /croatia.html   (1290 words)

  
 Palme - Animefringe: April 2005 - Features - A Tree of Palme
Fahrenheit 9/11 was competing against 18 other films for the Palme d'Or.
Palme D'Or Winners Collection - MovieMail UK Browse this catalogue of classic, independent, arthouse, cult and silent films and documentaries.
The Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Olof Palme -- February 28, 1996.
spiderarea.com /q/palme.htm   (198 words)

  
 Sweden: Statement on the Murder of Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh
It also deals a brutal blow to the vote which was expected to express massive opposition to the EMU/euro and the right wing policies which are its trade-mark.
As with the murder of Social Democratic Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986, the murder of Anna Lindh will tend to boost support for the government.
The murder of Olaf Palme was seen by many as an assault on the very welfare system established by Social Democracy.
www.socialistworld.net /eng/2003/09/12sweden.html   (1165 words)

  
 Summary of three cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olof Palme, the Swedish premier and leader of the Social Democratic Part was an ardent opponent of apartheid.
Fourteen minutes after the murder of Palme an elderly couple in Stockholm (Bromma) received a mysterious phone call with the message: "The job is done, Palme is dead".
Although the assassination of Palme is not in the prime interest of the South African's, they give their support to the local Swedes.
www.contrast.org /truth/html/summary.html   (5892 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Assassinations by the right wing
The man accused of killing Palme on Feb. 28, 1986, is a Swedish man named Christer Pettersson.
Pettersson was identified at the scene of the murder by Palme's wife Lisbet -- who claimed he shot her husband.
First, Olaf Palme, a top European ANC supporter, was murdered.
worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19086   (1885 words)

  
 Illuminati News: The Swedish Model
Olof Palme (Committee of 300), was put in charge to take care of the project, which they called “The Swedish Model”.
Then came the economical collapse all over the world in the early nineties, and the Swedes were wondering what was happening and what had become of their wonderful country, where nobody had to take care of anything, and the government had cared for it all?
Olof Palme was murdered, and Göran Persson is the Prime Minister now.
www.illuminati-news.com /swedish-model.htm   (907 words)

  
 South African police to probe Palme murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Former hit squad commander and convicted killer Eugene de Kock implicated former SA spy Craig Williamson yesterday in Palme's killing.
Deputy SA national intelligence co-ordinator Moe Shaik said De Kock had said a lot which needed to be followed up.
Palme, who was a staunch supporter of the ANC's struggle against the NP's apartheid government, was shot in Stockholm in 1986.
www2.lysator.liu.se /nordic/murder/scsa960927b.html   (182 words)

  
 Turkish Cypriot Press and Other Media, 96-10-02
[06] Suspect killer of Olaf Palme lives and works in the occupied area.
Clerides to say publicly that he has stopped his preoccupation", Denktash said, adding that he was convinced that President Clerides would not do so and could not do so "because of his false pretence that he represents that `republic'".
CUMHURIYET (1.10.96) reports that Bertil Wedin, the neonazi Swede, who is said to be involved in the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme, is living in the occupied area and is the producer of the weekly english program of illegal Bayrak Radio and TV.
www.hri.org /news/cyprus/tcpr/1996/96-10-02.tcpr.html   (962 words)

  
 The case "Olof Palme"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A man in an overcoat approached Palme and his wife from behind, drew a Smith and Wesson revolver and shot the premier in his back.
Fourteen minutes after the murder of Palme an elderly couple in Stockholm (Bromma) received a mysterious phonecall with the message: "The job is done, Palme is dead".
The fund had "virtually been run from Palme's office" and one of the key links was Bernt Carlsson (later killed in the Lockerbie bombing).
www.contrast.org /truth/html/default_olof_palme.html   (5641 words)

  
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If true, killing Palme was the most audacious and outrageous action in the apartheid regime's long record of ugly deeds.
South Africa had always been on the suspect list because of Palme's passionate support of the African National Congress cause, but there was never any evidence that South Africans were involved in the assassination, which took place in Stockholm.
Perhaps more information about the assassination of Olaf Palme is among them.
www.kurdistan.org /Washington/southafrica.html   (1437 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Editorial
Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme's friendship with Rajiv Gandhi influenced the decision in favour of Bofors.
YOPIC and straight-jacketed thinking of politicians and government functionaries not withstanding, food security does not mean overflowing FCI godowns with foodgrains procured and stored at costs twice or thrice the prevailing market prices with some of them sub-standard and rotting.
Palme was assassinated before the gun deal assumed the dimensions of a major scam.
www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010130/edit.htm   (6496 words)

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