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http://blog.bearstrong.net/000545.html leads to http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article666068.ece

one book review or interview in Norse[ http://www.kulturkompasset.com/index.php?AID=68&TID=8]

Kåre Willoch was the unappreachable champion on a throne. Bent Røiseland was an amusing chap filled with rural wisdom. -Haakon Lie

Svenn Stray lead the parliament group in accordance with the law of vagrants; Kåre Willoch practised the military code, while Jo Benkow abided with the law on social wellfare. -Conservative Norwegian politician Otto Lyng in his memoirs

I told Kåre Willoch about Gro's moved goodbye in The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs before she became Prime Minister, and he did in no

way hide his discomfort at this kind of sentimental display of emotions. A few months later, Willoch were to become Prime Minister, and gave a

short speech of goodbye from group leadership. The introduction was impeccable. This has been a circle of friends, he continued. Then his

voice suddenly became strangely rusty and odd, and the speech came to a stop. With shiny eyes, he looked around for help and found it in the

form of the chairman gavel, which he hit against the table and said: I think this will do!

-Lars Roar Langslet

collected by Kristian Rakvåg

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556517_12/Norway.html reference to vote of no confidence on oil revenue and to supply side economist.

Brundlandt and Willochs did not like each other.

"I learned a great deal from Kaare Willoch, including how not to treat others, whether individuals or parties, if one intends to build confidence and a realistic platform for joint efforts and cooperation," writes former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland in her autobiography. http://www.norwaves.com/norwaves/Volume5_1997/v5nw45.html

They resembled each other in urban background, rationality, belief in the power of arguments to convince - but that did not inspire any detectable mutual sympathy; quite the opposite, if anything. He developed a sharp sense of what aggravated her the most, and often he succeeded. -Lars Roar Langslet on Gro Harlem Brundtland and Kåre Willoch

Early on, I noticed a slight student who chose his words aptly, who still had hair on his head and an aura of respect surrounding him - Kåre Willoch. -Lars Roar Langslet

When senior public servants attended government conferences, we were told that they had never experienced such a professional Prime Minister. He had studied all the documents, grasped every point - he even grasped a few points that no one else had seen -Lars Roar Langslet on Kåre Willoch.

Politicians are like nails. Those that have a head, can be pulled out and used for something else. -Kåre Willoch

NYT on election http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/r_w_jr_apple/index.html?s=oldest&inline=nyt-per