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...money out at a moment's notice), while most loans, to be useful to a government or business, must be for the longer term?anywhere from one to ten years. A further difficulty is that many of the big borrowers are chancy credit risks, including the governments of Italy, Denmark and the developing countries. More and more bankers fear that their institutions will go under if the OPEC depositors withdraw their money or the borrowers default on their loans. Since much of the hot oil money is deposited
...Denmark has long been envied as a model welfare state of social harmony and governmental stability. No more. Since last spring, tens of thousands of discontented Danes have taken to the streets in demonstrations to protest inflation (currently 19% annually) and unemployment (10.3%-the highest in Western Europe). In contrast to oil-rich Norway and politically stable Sweden, Denmark is so problem-ridden that Danish Economist Thorkil Kristensen notes: "It is not easy to write anything encouraging about Denmark today...
...Hartling has by no means attracted a large popular following, his Liberal Party (according to the latest polls) may win as much as 30% of the vote-compared with 12.3% in December 1973. If these projections are correct, the Liberals will topple the Social Democrats from their position as Denmark's largest party. Hartling may then be able to constitute a coalition government strong enough to enact tough wage and price controls and continue his modest cutbacks on taxes and welfare...
...Britain, France and Russia imposed monarchy on Greece after it won independence from the Ottoman Empire. In 1862, after forcing the abdication of the first king, a Bavarian prince named Otho, the three powers offered the throne to Prince William of Denmark, who became George I of Greece, the first of the Glucksburg monarchs...
...Playboy or some other forbidden girlie import. The morals squad still exists, but since the April revolution, the risk has gone out of eroticism. In fact, one of the curious consequences of the coup that ousted the old regime is Europe's biggest explosion of pornography since Denmark legalized practically everything...