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...early as June, 1970, when Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme spoke with Secretary of State Rogers. Nixon has known that Hanoi might agree to release its prisoners in exchange for a fixed U.S. withdrawal date...
Prime Minister Olof Palme says that any wage packet over 7% to 9% would "threaten the economy of the country." Supporting Palme, the government's collective bargaining agency, Avtalsverket, ordered the lockouts in hopes of draining the unions' tills as fast as possible and forcing them back to the bargaining table. Significantly, blue-collar unions have not walked out, though their average annual wage ($4,900) is less than half that of the striking white-collar workers ($10,200). Palme, committed to what he calls "increased equality" in Sweden, has promised legislation that will close the broad...
...OLOF WIJK Lerum, Sweden
...last week, Sweden's Premier Olof Palme called for some way "to counteract technology's multiplication of the power to destroy." British Prime Minister Edward Heath warned in the same forum: "It may be that in the decade ahead of us, civil war, not war between nations, will be the main danger we will face." During a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, Richard Nixon said that the ubiquitous terrorism was "an international disease...
...their sophistication, Swedes seem to prefer politicians with a down-home touch. Tage Erlander, a big, shambling, avuncular sort, who retired as Prime Minister in 1969 after 23 years on the job, was perfectly typecast. But Erlander's hand-picked successor-Olof Palme, 43, a sophisticated aristocrat-was a far cry from that grass-roots stereotype. "Palme doesn't even look like a Swede," says one of his friends. "He's not tall, not blond. He's smart and he shows it. Will this go down with the Swedes? Will they take this international character...