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Though Prime Minister Olof Palme seems determined to cling to office, he may have some problems. Until a new constitution goes into effect in 1975, the only way to break a tied vote in the one-chamber legislature is by lottery. According to an unusual provision of Sweden's current constitution, tie votes in the Riksdag are resolved by placing one yes and one no ballot in an urn; under the watchful eye of two legislators representing both sides, a third Riksdag member draws one of the tickets from the urn to decide the fate of the bill...
That was the message proclaimed by Olof Palme, 46, Sweden's combative Social Democratic Prime Minister, in rally after rally this month as he appealed for a new mandate from the country's voters. He sounded rather strident−and for good reason. The 5,000,000 citizens who trooped to the polls last week−a day after the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf at the age of 90−were voting not just on a new Parliament but on the future direction of Europe's model welfare state. As the votes were counted...
...political figure in the Western world was more critical of President Nixon's decision to resume the bombing of North Viet Nam than Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme. In an emotional statement last December. Palme, 45, an intense, dedicated socialist, compared the aerial attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong to the past atrocities of "Guernica, Oradour, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville, Treblinka." Washington, long annoyed by Sweden's harsh criticism of the U.S. role in the war, reacted sharply, telling Stockholm, in effect, not to bother sending a new ambassador to the U.S. capital for the time...
...vote were to be held next week. At a news conference in the Elysée Palace last week, the President played to his conservative constituency. He pointedly declared that he would not meet with four national leaders-Israel's Golda Meir, Sweden's Olof Palme, Denmark's Anker Jörgensen and Austria's Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later, he flew off to Byelorussia...
...Commander Curtis LeMay once suggested-bomb North Viet Nam back into the Stone Age-but to some it almost seemed so. The reaction at home and abroad was swift and almost unanimous (see box, page 14). One of the strongest official protests came from Sweden's premier Olof Palme, who condemned the bombing as a crime against humanity on the moral scale of such Nazi atrocities as the death camp at Treblinka. The equation with the Nazis outraged the Administration, which called in the Swedish ambassador to Washington to protest. Undeterred, Palme himself went to a department store...