Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian fur merchant on the loose in Stockholm, Alberto Sordi finds Sweden's moral climate unseasonably cool...
...French-speaking. Canada's advance party took off from Ontario while the Security Council was still debating the formation of the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus-which will unfortunately be known as U.N.F.I.C.Y.P.-and it landed in Nicosia far ahead of contingents also due from Brazil, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Finland. There was reason to hurry, because it almost seemed as if the island's 500,000 Greeks and the government of Archbishop Makarios were trying to subdue the 100,000 Turkish minority before the U.N. takes control...
...Sweden was also ready to send troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
...Council came to the rescue. They produced a new resolution requiring all member states to "refrain from any action or threat of action likely to worsen the situation," and "requested" that U Thant press on with his peacekeeping efforts. Next day there was a breakthrough on the troop bottleneck. Sweden planned to send in an advance force of several hundred men from its contingent with the U.N. force in Gaza. Canada dispatched a small group of officers as a "reconnaissance mission." Another 1,000 Canadian troops prepared to take off for Nicosia this week. Other nations had weighed in with...
Europe's governments are beginning to give up some growth-inducing policies for the sake of stability. They are reshaping their economic policies in hopes of persuading free-spending consumers to buy less, borrow less, save more. Since October, Belgium, France, Sweden, The Netherlands and Britain have increased their bank interest rates. France has also clamped some price controls on food and manufactured goods, and Denmark has placed a 9%-sales tax on most nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that...