Protesters Charge U.S. Embassy in Norway
Two hundred people protesting U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger’s Norwegian visit charged the American Embassy on Tuesday, smashing windows and the front door until they were repulsed by riot police.
The protesters, chanting “Norway out of NATO” and “Weinberger go home,” then moved to the U.S. ambassador’s residence nearby, where they were again dispersed by police.
Police said the demonstrators attacked the front of the embassy, just across the road from the royal palace in central Oslo, before they were turned back by police firing tear gas and wielding clubs.
Eleven persons were arrested, police said, but no one was seriously injured in the clash.
Weinberger, who will leave today for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers meeting in the western port city of Stavanger, was nowhere near the riot, police said.
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