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...defenders had thought. In June a rat pack of young Swedish ruffians clashed with a group of Assyrian immigrants from the Middle East in Södertälje near Stockholm; it was the third such encounter of the year. Last week, in the southern port of Malmo, another bunch of toughs set out to terrorize 300 gypsy families, most of them from Czechoslovakia and Russia, who live in a local development...
...receiving a living allowance to boot: "There's no way I would go back. I'm getting an education and learning how to do something I want to do." Adds Herb Rains, 22, a former Army reservist who now works as a counselor for incoming resisters in Malmo: 'There's simply nothing for me to go back to. I'm very much involved in the Swedish way of life, and I like...
...bitterness, Polish citizens have noted the different situations in neighboring lands. Hungary, for example, has been making steady progress with a "New Economic Mechanism" that introduced capitalistic profit-and-loss into socialist planning. Gdansk, the former German city of Danzig, is only a short ferryboat ride from Swedish Malmo across the Baltic, and is regularly invaded by fun-loving Swedes seeking beaches, booze and beaming blondes who are a soft touch for hard currency. West Germans are so obviously affluent that Poles ask one another sarcastically which of the two nations lost World War II. Never rapier-sharp at best...
...Shorts. Once Parliament decided to switch, Swedish bureaucracy mobilized with terrifying efficiency. Psychologists made studies of drivers and pedestrians; traffic engineers surveyed Sweden's 70,000 miles of roadway from Malmo to remotest Lapland. Thousands of new signs and traffic lights were ordered and every home, hospital and prison received manuals detailing the 107 basic European road symbols that would replace the helter-skelter Swedish markers. To make sure foreign workers and visitors got the message, the Commission on Right-Hand Traffic printed pamphlets in nine languages from Portuguese to Serbo-Croatian...
When the funeral ended, church bells tolled from Malmo to Malmberget; then everything in Sweden stopped abruptly for a moment of silence. Among the 2,000 invited guests was the Ambassador of Russia, which in the last year of his life had denounced Hammarskjold as "a bloody-handed lackey of the colonial powers." President Kennedy sent Lyndon Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Said Johnson: "The name of Dag Hammarskjold has entered history-and history confers its highest honors for heroes of peace." Dr. Ralph Bunche, who as a U.N. under secretary worked closely with Hammarskjold, was near tears. Said...