Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus begins the controversial American writer in his famous Troplo of Cancer, banned in America since its publication in Paris in 1934 and long considered a paragon of pornography. Published in France, Sweden, Japan, and Mexico, it has found its way through U.S. Customs offices in laundry bags in such quantities that Miller has even thanked the country for the censorship...
...Labor Department statistics-which now place unemployment at 6.8% of the labor force-include among the jobless many people (such as teen-agers looking for part-time work and housewives seeking a job for the first time) who, in other countries, would not be listed as unemployed. When Sweden experimentally tried using U.S. measuring standards, the Swedish "unemployment" rate immediately quadrupled though the actual employment situation had not changed at all. Still, the very completeness of the U.S. figures makes them a valuable barometer for judging the who, why and where of joblessness...
...Sweden...
Though international convention bars broadcasting from international waters, and the targeted countries always voice official protest, nothing much is done to halt the pirates. Reason: the pirate programs are too popular. Fortnight ago, Sweden issued an edict that it would confiscate Radio Nord's transmitting equipment if it came into Swedish waters. But authorities did not revoke the export permit that allows Nord to ferry its tapes out to the ship. Though Danish officials rail in print against Radio Mercur. the government's official newspaper, Aktuelt, sells the pirates its news service...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Sweden: Trouble in Paradise," second part of a two-part series dealing with the country's social problems...