Word: krag
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Since he took over the leadership of the Social Democratic Party less than six years ago, Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, 53, has been forced to call parliamentary elections three times. Though energetic, craggily handsome and married to one of Denmark's cinema beauties, Krag has seemed less and less attractive to his country's voters with each successive ballot. He has not only acted highhanded in public (he has periodically scolded Danish workers for yearning for the better life), but has hurt his image by ignoring the sound political advice of his party cronies...
Even greater than their disenchantment with Krag personally was the irritation of Danish voters with his economic policies. Faced with worsening inflation, Krag tried last December to cancel a mandatory cost-of-living pay hike for Danish workers, but when some of his extreme leftist partners deserted him in a test vote on the issue in the Folketing, he called for new elections. During the campaign, the anti-Socialist opposition shrewdly played on rising Danish concern over increased unemployment (which is at 2.7%, still low by Western standards), a drop in Danish exports, the higher bill for welfare programs...
...representation in the Assembly's blue and gold auditorium. The roster of scheduled participants included U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, French Foreign Minister Couve de Mur-ville, British Foreign Secretary George Brown, Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, plus a flock of Communist Eastern European Premiers and Asian and Arab foreign ministers...
...DENMARK. Demand for Danish goods abroad has fallen, with agricultural exports especially hard hit by the country's continued exclusion from the Common Market. But consumption at home remains high. To curb inflationary spending and level out incomes, Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag's socialist government has proposed higher taxes...
Civilize 'em with a Krag...