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Some West Europeans, anxious over the Reagan Administration's hard line toward Moscow, also feel uncomfortable about leaving out the British and French forces. Among them are a number of Socialist politicians, including West German Social Democratic Arms Spokesman Egon Bahr and Denis Healey, deputy leader of the British Labor Party. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center for Strategic Studies in Rome: "A large part of public opinion in Europe feels that the French nuclear force exists, and the effect of saying it should not be counted causes confusion. People think the Americans are playing a trick...
...neutral nation that has long steered a careful path between the two superpowers, Sweden reacted to the spying with unusual harshness. The government recalled its Ambassador to Moscow, and Socialist Prime Minister Olof Palme summoned Soviet Ambassador Boris Pankin for an hourlong dressing down. Declared Palme: "The gross violations of Swedish territorial integrity should be roundly condemned...
Students loudly challenge the Socialist government...
Unlike the unruly leftist masses that rampaged through Paris for more than a month in 1968, this year's protesters were mostly clean shaven, well dressed and older. Generally more conservative, they were concerned with education rather than with politics. Ironically, the Socialist government that they were challenging is similar to the one that their predecessors had desperately wanted 15 years...
...Some 75% of them would be eliminated through competitive exams after two years, thus implicitly encouraging students to pursue technical training. The protesters also object to a provision that would allow more than 30% of the councils that control universities to be composed of nonuniversity delegates, many of them Socialist and Communist union representatives...