Wednesday, March 19, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Swedish suspect declared radical
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A fanatic anticommunist arrested in the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme was kicked out of an extreme right-wing political group because he was considered too radical, a spokesman for the organization said yesterday.
The suspect, identified as Viktor Gunnarsson, 32, is described by lawyers and friends as a fundamentalist Christian who joined the Swedish branch of the European Labor Party in 1984, spokesman Michael Ericson told United Press International.
"We reacted against his behavior. We are not interested in people with culd ideas," Ericson said. "We crossed him off our membership roster in May 1985."
Chief public prosecutor K.G. Svensson urged a court on Monday to charge Gunnarson, who was arrested last week, with murder in Palme's Feb. 28 assassination. A court ruling is expected tomorrow.
suspect's jacket by the State Criminal Laboratory at Linkoning and by Stockholm police.
A Swedish television news broadcast said traces of what may be gunpowder were found on the
"Police found particles on the man's jacket sleeve that stem from ammunition," the newscast said, without giving a source. "It could be gunpowder or lead particles."
A police spokesman declined comment, saying authorities were awaiting the outcome of tests on the clothes by experts in West Germany.
The prosecutor said witnesses had seen the suspect near the scene of the murder after the killing. Gumarsson denied having been there but failed to identify him and changed his story repeatedly, officials said.
Vssensson said one witness quoted the suspect as saying weeks before the killing that "Palme is on the death list" and that "blood will flow on the streets of Stockholm."
Ericson said Gunnarsson approached European Labor Party workers in December 1984 during a membership drive.
"Later on, in May 1985, upon noticing some unbalanced features in this person, we cut all contact with him," Ericson said in a statement.
The Swedish chapter of the European Labor Party is registered as a political party, but won only 391 votes in the 1985 parliamentary election. Political observers say the group has only about 30 hard-core members.
The organization ran a hate campaign against Palme for more than 10 years, once describing him as "a raging beast, an ax murderer, the devil's devil."
Ericson said the European Labor Party's main objection against Palme, a Socialist, was that "he tried to sell out Sweden to the Soviet Union."
Gunnarsson's former wife told a newspaper, Aftonbladet, that he regarded the Soviet Union as the devil and that he "believed that Palme was going to bring Sweden into the devil's gap."
Gunnarsson's former wife, who declined to be identified, said she moved with him to the United States after their wedding in June 1981. They stayed in Hollywood, where he had relatives, but ran out of money and returned to Sweden that October.
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MOSCOW — The Soviet Union accented the United States yesterday of a provocative violation of Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea and warned of severe repercussions in the event of future incursions.
During a news conference, a Soviet spokesman also made clear that the Soviet Union would not send observers to a U.S. nuclear test at the invitation of President Reagan.
Vladimir Lomeki, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said the guided missile cruiser Yorktown and the destroyer Caron last week were 6 miles inside the 12-mile limit
on the Black Sea, which separates Turkey from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union lodged an official protest with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. A spokesman there confirmed the complaint, but would not reveal the contents of the diplomatic note.
In Washington, a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon denied that the two U.S. ships acted in a provocative and defiant nature and said they were exercising the rights of free passage in sailing within the 12-mile limit. The spokesman said international law recognized the right that territorial waters of other countries could be crossed without prior notification.
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said, "The embassy's attention was called to the fact that the action was of a demonstrative, defiant nature."
Lomeiko said the two naval vessels were in Soviet waters for two hours Thursday, near the Crimea on the coast of the Ukrainian Republic.
He said similar violations of Soviet territorial waters could have severe consequences for the United States.
Most of the news conference was devoted to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's tests and the "negative reaction" from the White House and NATO.
Cloves, tobacco equal, study says
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WASHINGTON — A study released yesterday indicated that clove cigarettes were no more dangerous to health than regular cigarettes. The study refuted charges that inhaling fumes from the burning spice could cause severe breathing difficulty or death.
The study was the first comparing effects of inhaling plain tobacco cigarettes and those made of tobacco and ground clove, said the sponsor, the Specialty Tobacco Council.
The study, conducted by the Huntingdon Research Centre, an independent research organization in England, found that smoke from cigarettes made of 60 percent tobacco and 40 percent ground clove did not anesthetize lung tissue, an effect thought to cause smokers to retain clove smoke longer before exhaling.
No difference was found between lungs of animals exposed to clove and tobacco cigarettes, the study said, and there were no differences in body weight changes or food and water intake.
Florida, Nevada and New Mexico have banned the sale of clove cigarettes, and Maryland is considering doing the same, said the council, which represents manufacturers and importers of clove cigarettes.
Dr. Susan Binder, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said the CDC's position is that clove cigarettes "are at least as bad as other cigarettes, but if there are any more serious problems, we just don't have data on them."
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