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...Guatemala, voters will go to the polls on March 5 to select a successor to General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, 48, a take-charge officer who has run the country since 1974. The election will offer limited choices. Besides General Ricardo Peralta Mendez, who directed reconstruction after the country's savage 1976 earthquake and is the candidate of the powerful Christian Democratic Party, the field includes one other general and a colonel...
...satisfaction. When he was 16, his father died, and Wall, while attending high school, went to work in a brick factory, hustled subscriptions for the local newspaper and later sold real estate. At 20 he enrolled in Stockholm's School of Economics, where he caught the eye of Kjell Beijer, Beijerinvest's owner, who hired him part time. Wall joined the company in 1958, and in 1964 was given chief responsibility for the firm's operations. Immediately he set out to expand the company, selling off deadwood and using the money to buy firms with fatter profit...
Adding to the Swedes' frustration over tax rates is the sweeping power of the tax collectors. They can enter houses without court order, inspect bank records, even survey private medical records. The Bergman case prompted Author Kjell Sundberg to declare angrily, "The way society treated Bergman is the way ordinary people are daily treated by the tax authorities, the judicial system, the penal system, the schools...
...environment is better," says Göran Nillson, 38, who worked on Volvo's conventional assembly line near Göteborg, "but you should not forget that we have the same productivity objectives as any other plant. It looks like a paradise, but we work hard." Adds Kjell Anderson, an official of the militant Swedish metal workers' union, "They haven't really changed the system and they haven't changed the hierarchy. For example, we don't think it's necessary to have a foreman when you have groups...
Another heralded confrontation of champions will not come off: the long-awaited pole-vault duel between Bob Seagren of the U.S. and Sweden's Kjell Isakkson, who failed to qualify for the final because of a leg injury. Seagren had his problems even without Isakkson's competition. His and his teammates' new poles were confiscated the night before the trials started on the grounds that they were too sophisticated for Olympic competition. Thus the handsome young Californian had to qualify with a pole he had previously abandoned. In other track and field events, the U.S. will be below its traditional...