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SWEDEN is not a politically volatile nation in 1976, the ruling Social Democrats had held power for 44 years. But when taxes climbed up over 80 percent on a $30.000 income, even the reticent Swedes began to complain Author Astrid Lindgren wrote a particularly harsh attack when she was assessed for 102 percent of her royalties. The disillusionment with high taxes and government interference at all levels contributed to the defeat of the S-D prime minister Olof Palme in the 1976 elections, just as it helped Ronald Reagan oust then president Jimmy Carter...
...foreign policy. Those were the qualities George Shultz was expected to contribute as Reagan's second Secretary of State. But they are scarcely the words that leap to mind today. On issue after issue, Shultz has let others take the lead in defining policy, sometimes joining them in harsh speech, sometimes keeping silent. The result over the past month or so has been an Administration swing to tough talk, especially on El Salvador but on other subjects as well, that surprises many observers at home and abroad. Says one French government official: "What we are seeing in Washington these days...
...pastor concerned with the spiritual welfare of the faithful, the Pope had also come to reprove and correct the wayward. He had harsh words for Christians in Nicaragua who have tried to forge a new church compatible with the aims of the avowedly Marxist Sandinista government and rebuked clergy who have neglected their priestly office to serve the state. Angered that no cross was placed at the site of an outdoor Mass in Managua, he deliberately held his own staff, tipped with a cross, high above the heads of Sandinista leaders seated on the platform. As John Paul delivered...
Lavelle underwent a harsh 4½-hour grilling at the hands of the Senate Environment Committee, before which she voluntarily appeared after failing to respond to subpoenas from two House subcommittees that had been investigating the Superfund. If she had hoped to receive more sympathetic treatment from the Republican-controlled body, she miscalculated. Republican Senator Robert Stafford told Lavelle sternly that she had "created the impression that your agency may be in bed with polluters." Fellow Republican Senator John Chafee complained that she had been "extremely insensitive" about the appearance of impropriety in her frequent lunches and dinners with chemical...
...equally time-tested setting is an empty stage, and the props are limited, but the placement of large practice-room mirrors and the variation of harsh white light with soft rotating colors more than compensate for the space decoration...