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...could have been the last hurrah for one of Western Europe's best-known socialist leaders. "Much is at stake for Olof Palme," wrote a top Swedish political columnist. "It is a question of winning or disappearing." During six years in political exile, former Prime Minister Palme, 55, crisscrossed the globe as a spokesman for disarmament groups and a mediator in the Iran-Iraq war. This summer, however, he reverted to his familiar role of politician, as he sought to avenge successive defeats that have deprived his Social Democratic Party from governing the cradle-to-grave welfare society that...
When the votes were tallied in the Sunday election, Palme had won what some observers called his "first real victory" in 13 years as party leader. The Social Democrats swept back to power by winning 166 seats against a combined total of 163 seats for the three-party non-Socialist bloc...
...left than an expression of public disenchantment with the austerity policies of outgoing Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin. During his five years in power, the stubborn sheep farmer juggled three governments in an unsuccessful bid to forge a unified coalition among Sweden's fractious non-Socialist parties. Confronted with an inflation rate of 8.5% and a budget deficit of $12.8 billion (about 12% of the country's gross national product, in contrast to the U.S. deficit of about 4%), Fälldin tried to trim social-welfare spending. He cut back on such popular measures...
...lines are well dug in on both sides. For the players, Garvey, the executive director of the N.F.L.P.A., argues that they are not proposing gridiron socialism as charged; they are trying to respond to a well-oiled socialist industry, unprecedented in American business. The N.F.L.'s new fiveyear, $2.1 billion television package, for example, is to be divided equally among its franchises. Whether Super Bowl winner or cellar inhabitant, whether smoothly or badly run, each team is to get the same $11.8 million share of this year's TV income. The result is a $600 million-a-year...
...concerted radical effort marks a major departure from the previous tactics of groups like the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC) which have pursued their causes without representation in Harvard student government...