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Sweden's super-stiff taxes for the self-employed are the result of a strategy of Prime Minister Olof Palme's Social Democratic Party to build popularity in an election year. The Social Democrats only barely prevailed in the 1973 elections, and Palme faces another severe test at the polls in September. In a cunning bid to woo the country's 3 million blue-and white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners...
Simmons was stopped in the semi-finals, losing four out of five duels to stiff international competition. But he added still another titleholder to his collection of victims by vanquishing Scott Bozak, the current U.S. national champion...
...Guard-with a primary mission of intercepting Soviet bombers. With large-scale production already under way of the Backfire-a new, supersonic Soviet intercontinental warplane-Russia will narrow the bomber gap. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force's supersonic B-l is still in the development stage and faces stiff opposition in Congress...
...stiff dosage of reform is the remedy prescribed by the authors of the report. They call for a restoration of abandoned scholarly discipline, and "particularism"-commitment to perpetuation of specific traditions. They also urge more "pluralism" to give representation in the Big Five to such hitherto missing religious groups as the rising "conservative Evangelicals," who now make up roughly half of U.S. Protestantism...
...aimed at Americans who protested the Viet Nam war. Some provisions would incarcerate anyone who physically interfered with federal government functions. The bill, if applied as broadly as it is vague, would make anyone who picketed a federal building, or protested marine recruiting on campus liable to prosecution and stiff-sentencing. One section of the bill even zeroes in on those who block public transit--which would make street marches a criminal offense...