Word: sweden
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...Thant formally requested troops from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Austria and Brazil, and the U.S. is expected to handle the logistics of getting the troops to Cyprus. He also named India's Lieut. General Prem Singh Gyani as commander of the U.N. peace-keeping force. Already in Cyprus as a U.N. observer, Gyani changed from civilian clothes to a resplendent uniform topped by a blue beret. His record as commander of the U.N. Emergency Force in the Middle East was faultless, and he has also served the U.N. in Yemen. As mediator, U Thant submitted the name of Guatemala...
...years, in Sweden, premarital intercourse has been widely condoned, and the government provides legal abortions when deemed "in the mother's interest." The result, warned the doctors, has been a tide of extramarital pregnancies and mounting venereal disease-with most of the victims young people. Sweden's gonorrhea rate has jumped 75% in five years, and of last year's new cases, 52% were among teenagers...
Reform Talk. The physicians placed the blame squarely on Sweden's schools, where sex education starts in the first grade, pointing out that young minds -unless taught differently-can confuse instruction with encouragement. Arguing that "chastity in no way is harmful to health," the doctors declared that "monogamous marriage [with] common responsibility for the children, is the natural order of life." In sum, the doctors urged schools to teach "what is right and wrong...
...religious instruction given in high schools. A shocking idea, implied the doctors, insisting that Christian doctrine, especially as it applies to adultery, must be stressed even more as just about the only way to stem growing sexual license. Said one of the signers, Dr. Sigurd Elvin: "Young people in Sweden are not happy. They lack the Ten Commandments in their upbringing...
Reluctant Rethink. Publication of the petition brought angry cries from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark Michanek, 25, a free-love advocate whose latest tome, For Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying...