The World - News from June 9, 1989
Pope John Paul II met in Stockholm with the widow of Prime Minister Olof Palme, who established diplomatic relations between his country and the Vatican seven years ago. In his 15-minute meeting with Lisbet Palme, the Pope “spoke with warmth about Olof Palme’s visits to the Vatican” before he was assassinated on a Stockholm street in 1986, said Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, who attended the meeting. Sweden was the final stop in the Pope’s five-nation tour of Scandinavia.
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