Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 90

90 EDMONTON JOURNAL, Wednesday, September 15, 1976 Nuclear issue adds fuel to hot Swedish campaigning A3TE NIGHT OPFING onday to Friday am.topm. flldaSatoMay to (5pm electorate in a poll this month, up from 44 per cent in June. One-fifth of the voters are still undecided about nuclear power. There are strong indications that the nuclear controversy is switching hard-core Social Democrats, including public declarations by some of the party's leading intellectuals. "Whether the ordinary people will follow the opinion leaders is the big question," says Lennart Daleus, an anti-nuclear activist Considered most volatile among the voters are 500,000 youngsters voting in their first election.

This pool of new voters has enlarged considerably since 1973, because of the lowering of the voting age from 19 to 18. Some straws in the wind indicate Swedish youngsters may vote more conservatively than their parents. Issues of individual freedom and fear of nuclear radiation rank high in student concerns. Prome Minister Palme has so far appeared unable to counter Faelldin's emotional oratory with his appeal to logic, arguing that mass unemployment' would be the price of a nuclear moratorium in a nation without petroleum resources. The 49-year-old Palme has also faced a barrage of public and opposition criticism over a series of "affairs" which threw world-wide doubt the Social Democratic ideology.

Chief among these was the painful decision by noted film-maker Ingmar Bergman to abandon his homeland because of alleged police-state tactics by tax collectors. The future of the Social Democratic government may, however, turn on matters far more prosaic than these controversies. Unless the Communists get at least four per cent of the popular vote in Sweden's proportional representation ballot, they receive no seats in the 349-member parliament. Without the Communists as allies, it would be difficult for Palme to form a government But the three opposition parties are not as firmly allied as initially appears and there is much questioning whether they would be able to fashion a coalition which would survive three years, until the statutory election in 1979. BroadlobmifMMlUrehouse Store.

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The most recent public opinion polls suggest a fragile coalition of non-socialist parties will edge past Olof Palme's Social Democrats and their Communist allies when six million citizens vote Sunday. If the Social Democrats are ousted, the defeat would continue the anti-left trend in elections as far afield as Australia and British Columbia. Palme considered Dave Barrett's government the closest in the West to the The Social Democrats' troubles here do not stem from economic mismanagement Thanks to a unique stockpile of investment funds, Sweden has survived the recession with less than two per cent unemployment "This is a good country," runs the Social Democrats' slogan on posters featuring young families with robust babies. "Let's make it better." But this appeal (with unconscious echoes of the Liberals' disastrous "The Land Is Strong" campaign in Canada) has failed to seize the public. Instead, the Social Democrats have been forced constantly on the defensive by a succession of scandals, "affairs" and opposition issues.

A controversy over Sweden's nuclear power program, which closely parallels Canada's in projected nuclear dependence, has proved the most damaging opposition assault One poll last week estimated 300,000 Swedes might switch party allegiance over the nuclear issue. Support for the government's nuclear program eight reactors added to five already completed has fallen steadily to only 30 per cent. Reaping; the electoral profit is Thorbjorn Faelldin, leader of the Centre Party which ran second in the popular vote in the 1973 elections. A consistent opponent of nuclear power since he assumed party leadership in 1971, sheep-farmer Faelldin has hardened his line throughout the drawn-out electioneering this year and npw favors a moratorium on expansion, and gradual closure of the five operating stations. This stance attracted support from 48 per cent of the Work-for-food plan gives hope to Bangladesh ROME (AP) Once the world's symbol of starvation, Bangladesh might be self-sufficient in food in five years, thanks to an innovative food-for-work program, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports.

Under the food-for-work program started by the Bangladesh government in 1975 to reduce food handouts, a worker is paid six pounds of wheat for each ton of earth he moves in the dredging of canals and the construction of levees. About two million men and boys took part in the program this year. FAO, a principal sponsor of the program, reports about 1,500 miles of canals and 1,850 miles of embankments already have been completed. All this is being done to control the disastrous flooding that occurs, each year during the monsoon season, and instead, use the water for controlled irrigation of one of the most naturally fertile delta regions in the world. The eventual success of the program could mean life itself for hundreds of thousands of the 80 million people squeezed into this country the size of Iowa.

"It is really amazing what the country has done in such a short time. More earth has been dug up for the canals and embankments than was dug for the building of the Panama Canal," says Trevor Page, world food program adviser in "At this rate, and with increased food production and crop surpluses, Bangladesh could become self-sufficient in food in five v'' The country's dependence on foreign food imports has, intact begun to drop. Rice and wheat production increased in 1975-76 to 11.9 million tons from 10.1 million tons in 1974-75. This cut imports to 1.5 million tons from 2.3 million. -Food-for-work provided useful occupation for one out of four of the country's seven million unemployed and contributed to a change in direction for the country's economy.

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