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...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...
Early in the week, tired and haggard, Social Democratic Chairman Olof Palme, 49, tendered his resignation as Prime Minister-the post he had held since 1969-to the Speaker of Parliament, and vowed to "continue to be a driving force in Swedish politics." He will now head a caretaker government for a few weeks until Center Party Chairman Thorbjörn Fälldin (pronounced fell-dean), 50, names his Cabinet and becomes Prime Minister...
SORRY U.S.A., WE STILL LOVE OUR PRINCE announced several placards and banners as Queen Juliana and her disgraced husband, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, rode in their 1898 golden coach to the opening of the Dutch Parliament. Just a month earlier Bernhard had ceased all official duties and resigned his post as armed forces Inspector General after a government investigation uncovered "extremely imprudent" links between the prince and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Despite the gray civvies that replaced the favorite naval uniform he had relinquished...
...what he called "major surgery" in his 29-member Cabinet to help solve his problems, Trudeau bumped out two party veterans and added seven new faces, including two women. External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen, a skillful party tactician, was transferred back to lead the currently disorganized Liberals in Parliament. In MacEachen's place, Trudeau appointed a rotund, voluble Newfoundlander named Donald Jamieson. His diplomatic experience is scant (his last post was Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce), but Jamieson's known affection for the U.S. promises an improvement in the tone, at least, of U.S.-Canadian relations...
Women will be eligible this year for the Rhodes scholarship because of the passage of a bill by the British Parliament barring sexual discrimination...