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Amnesty officials estimate that there are upwards of a million political prisoners in the world, with almost every nation bearing some of the guilt. Only Holland, the Scandinavian countries, West Germany, New Zealand. Canada, and Australia have no political prisoners (Amnesty would classify England in this group if it weren't for uncertainties over the situation in Northern Ireland). The countries with the greatest number of political prisoners now are Chile. South Africa, Rhodesia, and Indonesia. Up until its liberation last spring. South Viet Nam would probably have won the prize for political repression...
...SCANDINAVIAN. This system could be called either welfare capitalism or free enterprise socialism. For example, about 90% of Swedish production is carried on by private corporations, a proportion as high as in the U.S. But profits and incomes are taxed at rates of up to 80% to support the capitalist world's widest array of social services. Wages are set by a "national bargain" reached through negotiations between employer associations and unions and ratified by the government...
Dean Whitlock and Lowell House Master Zeph Stewart yesterday announced the appointment of Janet E. Rasmussen, lecturer on Scandinavian Literature, as the new senior tutor of Lowell House...
Your report on six American auto workers' experience of Scandinavian conditions [March 10] is similar to an inquiry by George III of England into the sanity of the founding fathers of the Constitution. America developed the production line, particularly in the auto industry, and any deviation from Henry Ford's practice is now regarded as heresy...
...same widget on a fast-moving, impersonal line. American sociologists and union and management officials regularly return from tours of such plants favorably impressed. But recently a group of six Detroit engine-plant employees tried the Swedish way by working at a Swedish auto company. Their conclusion: even Scandinavian-style factory work has its drawbacks...