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...samhället's cradle-to-grave benefits are unmatched in any other free society outside Scandinavia. Swedes enjoy free public education through college, four weeks' annual vacation and comprehensive retraining programs if they want to switch careers. On the average, Swedish workers take 22 days per year of sick leave (for which they get 90% of their regular salary) and pay $3.40 at most for each visit to an out-patient clinic. On retirement at age 65, an industrial laborer earning $11,250 annually is entitled to a pension of $8,726. In pursuit of new ways...
Jefferson began on a note of grave courtesy and lofty historical purpose: "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands winch have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to winch the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes winch impel them to the separation...
Senator Proxmire immediately labeled the White House plan "a bureaucratic copout" and declared his intention to press ahead with his own bill. In reality, both approaches have grave flaws. As Richardson pointed out, Proxmire's legislation is probably unenforceable. The White House approach, on the other hand, suffers the weakness of expecting companies to report their own misdeeds...
...Syria, at the same time, there are still some grave problems. By agreeing to and upholding the ceasefire, the Syrians would reduce the chances of a confrontation with both the Palestinians and such radical Arab states as its hostile neighbor Iraq, where suspicious movement of troops last week caused Syria to shift some of its own troops to its eastern border. But Damascus will assuredly not give up its goal of preventing the Arab radicals and the P.L.O. from gaining a free hand in Lebanon and provoking a confrontation with Israel. If there seems any strong danger of that...
Responsible political organizations all quickly deplored Coco's murder, but they also projected it into the increasingly hectic election campaign. Premier Aldo Moro, stumping for the Christian Democrats, deplored "a grave disturbance at a delicate electoral moment." The Communists, by means of a statement in the party newspaper L'Unità, protested that such "ferocious criminality" was meant to prevent Italians from making "new choices to bring Italy out of its crisis and disorder." Added the statement: "In the face of this worrying reality, the action of the government appears inadequate and weak." Political observers thought the mysterious...