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- <title>
- Feb. 26, 1990: World Notes:Sweden
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 30
- World Notes
- SWEDEN
- Let's Loosen Those Belts
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden's Social Democratic Prime
- Minister, entered the chambers of parliament last week, he was
- convinced that he brought with him the cure to the country's
- economic woes, which are many. Banks had been closed for almost
- three weeks in a bitter strike and lockout; wages have risen 28%
- since 1986; and inflation gallops ahead at an estimated 9%.
- Carlsson's plan was painful: a two-year freeze on rents, wages
- and prices and arbitration to prevent strikes. After several
- hours of heated debate, the five opposition parties united to
- defeat Carlsson's bill. The final vote: 190 to 153. The Prime
- Minister resigned immediately.
- </p>
- <p> If various parties cannot put together a new coalition, an
- election will have to be called. In the meantime, banks planned
- to reopen this week following a settlement that gives workers a
- 13.5% wage hike.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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