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...nobody can figure out how to pay for it. Last week, despite a provisional settlement, more than 250,000 workers were still out on strike in the worst general labor tie-up since World War II. Beyond the current strike is the issue of who pays how much for Denmark's cradle-to-grave security. Danish taxes are among the world's heaviest-nearly 53% of last year's gross national product. Meanwhile, the biggest industry in the country is public administration...
...Manhattan-based World Medical Association offers the International Medical Directory. The passport-sized booklet lists the names and addresses of English-speaking physicians-or of medical organizations likely to know where to find them-in 223 cities in 79 countries, from such popular tourist spots as France and Denmark to such little-visited lands as Botswana and Burma. The directory is so up-to-date that it even tells the traveler how to obtain medical care in the People's Republic of China...
...would be a collection of dead letters. Last week speaking for its NATO partners, the U.S. agreed to Vienna, but insisted that only a modest expansion of the talks would be acceptable. Bulgaria and Rumania would be allowed to join in as rotating Warsaw Pact "observers," just as Norway, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Turkey will on the NATO side...
...Made in Denmark by a Polish director, The First Circle was shot in some approximation of English, then redubbed. The actors exercise their mouths a great deal, trying to shape uncomfortable syllables. Meanwhile, the voices droning smoothly on the sound track have the faintly patronizing, disengaged sound of a troupe from some failed regional theater making an unpleasant living on a soap opera...
...vote were to be held next week. At a news conference in the Elysée Palace last week, the President played to his conservative constituency. He pointedly declared that he would not meet with four national leaders-Israel's Golda Meir, Sweden's Olof Palme, Denmark's Anker Jörgensen and Austria's Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later, he flew off to Byelorussia...