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...blatant politics of the Palme tax policy upsets many Swedes, however. Worried about a political backlash, Palme's tax officials last week insisted that the 101.2% maximum was an "accident," and it was announced that a "provisional tax revision" was under study. Meanwhile, Bergman has angrily canceled all his film and theater projects in Sweden. Some tax experts are suggesting another way for certain self-employed Swedes to cope: divorce. Swedish husbands, they advise, could divorce their wives, dispatch them abroad, then send them big tax-deductible allowances. Upon reaching retirement age, the couple could be joyfully reunited...
...millenarian pretensions of "the movement." This is not necessarily a dishonorable exercise, although sometimes it is a little too easy, like hunting from a helicopter. But there is a danger in it. A repugnance for the Yippie idiocies of the '60s can too often turn into a backlash against such concerns as clean air, equal rights and the lessening of poverty. Beneath the current indignation about Big Government there can lurk a regressive social meanness...
Actually, the leaked report played right into the hands of the growing number of critics who argue that the investigations have weakened the needed secret agencies. The backlash over the leaks threw the congressional investigators further on the defensive, just as both committees were winding up their probes. The weak and fumbling House committee, headed by zealous New York Congressman Otis Pike, disbanded last week, and Church's Senate panel, which has been less accident-prone, is to wind up by March 1. As a result, the Administration had an opportunity to push its own proposals for reform...
Pike's testy confession of helplessness only served to intensify the growing backlash in Congress against his committee's six-month investigation of the CIA, FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Week after week, confidential information gathered by the committee's investigators had wound up on the front pages of U.S. newspapers. Last week the leaks turned into what outgoing CIA Director William Colby angrily called "the bursting of the dam." The committee's entire final report was given to newsmen. The leaked report contained little that had not been disclosed, and the revelations tended...
GEORGE ("End the War") McGOVERN, veteran: Has never recovered from the backlash of his $1000 a day salary demand of last season...