Word: wickman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about for new gimmicks in a country where social reform seems to have gone about as far as it can go, and taxes about as high (in addition to income taxes averaging 30%, Swedes pay a painful 11% sales tax on all retail purchases). Last week Economics Minister Krister Wickman announced the Cabinet's intention to begin putting the state's huge pension funds in northern industries, a move that will give the government a considerably larger stake in Swedish industry than the 5% it now controls...
...Issue. Wickman, 44, is one of two leading candidates to succeed wily Prime Minister Tage Erlander, 67, if he makes good his promise to retire next year. The other is brash Education Minister Olof Palme, 41, who stirred up a storm last winter when he marched in a torchlight parade with North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow to protest the U.S. bombing. Like Palme, most Swedes oppose Washington's Viet Nam policy. Sweden's own foreign policy, however, was never an issue in the campaign. After all, Sweden's traditional neutrality has kept...