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Directed and Written by INGMAR BERGMAN...
Terming Jackson "a very cerebral guy who responds well to counsel." Bergman said yesterday he has been trying to "dip into the kind of resources we have here at Harvard" in order to supply the candidate with advice on a broad range of issues
...Elihu Bergman, assistant director of the Center for Population Studies, not only provides the campaign of Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) with research papers on social policy issues such as birth control, but also actively arranges for other professors to advise Jackson...
...Bergman was not the only Swedish taxpayer suffering from this malady. The condition has reached epidemic proportions among the roughly 500,000 Swedes (out of 8.2 million) who own small businesses, farms or shops, or who pursue careers in law, private medicine or the arts. They are being hit by new regulations that have raised taxes to levels that are astronomical and sometimes even absurd. For example, a self-employed taxpayer has to pay 101.2% of all income over...
...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...