Word: nonsocialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longevity record unsurpassed in Europe today except by the Soviet Union's durable Bolsheviks. Last week, in a decision that echoed throughout Western Europe, Sweden's voters ousted the Social Democrats and cautiously mandated a new, more conservative course for their country. Nationwide parliamentary elections gave the nonsocialist bloc-the Center, Moderate and Liberal parties-50.8% of the vote, providing it with 180 of Parliament's 349 seats, v. 47.6% of the vote and 169 seats for the informal ruling alliance of the Social Democratic and Communist parties...
...complaints have had political impact. The three nonsocialist opposition parties (Liberal, Center and Moderate) have pledged to halt the trend toward greater government centralization and slow the growth of the welfare state; the nonsocialist bloc has gained considerable strength. Since the 1973 election that left the Social Democrats with only 156 of Parliament's 350 seats, they have had to govern as a minority, relying on the support of 19 Communist votes and occasional deals with other opposition Deputies in order to enact key legislation. According to the latest polls, the Social Democrats' support is down...
Hurt by voter discontent over unemployment, the world's highest income taxes and soaring inflation, the government bloc, which includes a smattering of Communist supporters, emerged from a national election with exactly the same number of seats-175-as the three-party, nonsocialist opposition. First reports had indicated that the Social Democrats would squeak through with a bare two-vote majority...
After 41 years in power, Palme's Social Democrats−who, together with a scattering of Communists, have held a ten-seat majority in Parliament since 1970−faced their strongest opposition ever. It consisted of a nonsocialist coalition of the Center, Liberal and Moderate (conservative) parties, led by a ruggedly handsome farmer named Thorbjorn Falldin, 47. If he won a second three-year term as Prime Minister, Palme promised to embark on an intensified campaign to increase the scope of socialism. Falldin promised to halt that trend and to restore a measure of individual initiative to Sweden...
Within four days, the gist of the report was in the papers, and rumors soon followed that the Prime Minister himself was responsible for the leak. Borten, who had successfully headed Norway's four-party nonsocialist governing coalition since 1965, after 30 years of Labor Party rule, vigorously denied the story. But newsmen knew that he and Haugestad had met on the plane, and the rumors persisted. Finally, in a midnight declaration, Borten admitted that he had shown the report to Haugestad. "I have been guilty of an indiscretion," he confessed. Last week, after a series of emergency Cabinet...