150 years after Lenin's birth
ORIENTATION MAY 1, 1970: The world over will mark the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth. Today, Lenin is a historical leading figure for rebellious people in the world's poorest peasant countries, writes Hans Fredrik Dahl in this article, emphasizing Lenin's role as dialectical revolutionary, politician and journalist rather than theorist and philosopher.
The lie of our time
ORIENTATION APRIL 11, 1970: April 9 was a result of the Norwegian officer corps' remission policy and nasal admiration for Hitler-Germany and all it stood for, says Major Svein Blindheim in this interview.
Not just cannon boats to Israel
ORIENTATION JANUARY 10, 1970 "We do not want Egyptian sabotage actions here at Aker"
About shitting culturally in your own nest
1. NOVEMBER 1969: Observations by Sigurd Evensmo
Palm increases Vietnam support - US economic reprisals?
ORIENTATION 11.10.1969
After Sweden has decided to provide extensive financial support for the construction of North Vietnam, the US criminal measures start a new round.
Ho Chi Minh's wills
ORIENTATION 25.10.1969 At the solemn ceremony in memory of Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi 10. in September, Lo Duan, first secretary of the Vietnamese Labor Party, read this political will from Ho Chi Minh:
The US plans were real - but the defense minister still won't respond
ORIENTATION 6. SEPTEMBER 1969
On Monday last week, the West German magazine "Stern" reported that it had received a secret American plan for, among other things. ABC warfare in Europe. It states in detail how nuclear, chemical and biological weapons should be used in both Western and Eastern Europe. According to Arbeiderbladet, this has attracted "considerable attention" on the continent.
The war industry is becoming an increasingly dominant force in society
ORIENTATION 12. JULY 1969 The close relationship between the US Department of Defense and industry is not new. The military-industrial complex has been an integral part of the US economy since the end of World War II.
The abyss of peace
ORIENTATION 22. FEBRUARY 1969 Iron Mountain's report is a frightening satire that strikes American social science and the armor industry. The research report is a fictitious document showing what would happen if peace broke, and concludes in a sober scientific language that war is a necessity for our social system. In this way, the book - which has now come in Norwegian as the Fakkel book from Gyldendal - can also be read as a shocking revelation of habit thinking and war preparations. The Danish author Carl Scharnberg chooses to read the book as an authentic and serious document and gives in this chronicle a summary of the "research results".
Experience with NATO - 20 years after
OPINION v. NATO: While NATO's foreign ministers are gathered in Washington to hold cheers for the Alliance's excellence, public opinion against NATO is getting stronger in member states.
The Cold War
When NATO history is written in Norway, it is always the "coup in Czechoslovakia" that is the starting point. (ORIENTATION 22. APRIL 1969)