The World - News from March 7, 1986
The military leaders of eight North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries called off their joint winter maneuvers a week early as the body of a 13th Norwegian ski trooper was recovered a day after an avalanche struck a 31-man patrol. Hopes were fading for finding the bodies of three more Norwegian soldiers buried by the avalanche, near the Arctic port of Narvik in northern Norway. “Anchor Express” was a multimillion-dollar test of NATO’s preparedness for winter warfare involving 20,000 troops.
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