Swedish Leader to Create New Government
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From Associated Press
STOCKHOLM — Caretaker Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson said Friday that he is forming a new government to end Sweden’s political crisis and to quell the labor strife and inflation that have beset the economy.
Carlsson, from the Social Democratic Labor Party, said the government will consider opening Sweden to workers from the Soviet Baltic republics to alleviate an inflation-boosting labor shortage and will seek to mediate labor disputes.
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