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Mon 08 Aug 2009Fact-free political debate can have lethal consequences
Anti-Lisbon groups now feel free to make arguments that have no basis in reality in the belief that nobody can, or will, challenge them, writes TONY KINSELLA
BERNT CARLSSON was a colleague who became a friend. A convinced social democrat and Swedish diplomat, he had worked with Olof Palme, Willy Brandt and others in pursuit of peace in some of the most intractable of our planet’s conflicts.
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