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...done to the country's image as a model welfare state. With cradle-to-grave benefits supplementing average incomes of $10,000 and only about 2% unemployment, Sweden's laborers have long been the envy of the industrial world. Strikes were rare, thanks largely to a 1938 pact between labor and management that made negotiations in all labor disputes obligatory without government intervention. Another factor in maintaining industrial peace was the cozy relationship between labor and the Social Democratic government that ruled Sweden from...
That year Tito proved his loyalty by swallowing without a qualm the Nonaggression Pact between Berlin and Moscow. As Tito explained: "We accepted the pact like disciplined Communists, considering it necessary for the security of the Soviet Union, at that time the only socialist state in the world." When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Moscow issued orders for all-out resistance to the Germans, who two months earlier had conquered Yugoslavia. Within days, Tito had established the General Headquarters of National Liberation Partisans' Detachments-taking the name "partisans" from the irregulars who had operated behind...
There were indications at a high-level NATO meeting last week that the tempo of the pact's modernization program might quicken the spending increase. France and Britain are updating their own small nuclear forces. Europe has also strengthened the alliance by defying Soviet protests and allowing the U.S. to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in some countries. To bolster NATO even more, the U.S. is asking its friends to assume further responsibility for their own defense, thereby freeing American forces for duty in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...
...less ambitious possibility would be a naval blockade, but it is questionable that even that would effectively squeeze Iran. The country has increasingly rerouted its trade to the north by land through the Soviet Union and is doing more business with the Warsaw Pact countries. Says a U.S. Commerce Department official: "There are eight planeloads of Polish meat flying into Iran every day. Iranian airports are littered with cargo planes from Rumania and East Germany. And the Iranians are very resourceful with whatever they get. Villagers in remote areas manufacture sophisticated weapons from car axles-yes, car axles...
...embassy, but many refused to budge, fearful that they would not be readmitted or would be beaten up by the pro-regime bullyboys who waited just outside. Meanwhile, Peruvian officials, pleading that they could not possibly accommodate all the refugees, called an emergency meeting of the Andean pact nations. At week's end all five members -Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru-as well as several other countries offered to take in the refugees. The U.S., which has admitted 800,000 Cubans since Castro came to power in 1959, will accept a "fair share of the refugees," said...