Nuclear row splits Govt
NZPA Stockholm! A national debate over the! [use of nuclear energy has| erupted into a controversy I that could bring down! Sweden’s three-party coalition Government.
; The Cabinet was reported■ jto be so badly divided that a; j severe Government crisis, [ (including a possible no-i (confidence vote, is possible] 1 next week. And the Centre Party; leader and Prime Minister ( (Mr Thorbjoni Falldin) was 1 so adamantly anti-nuclear, . sources said, he was prepared to sacrifice his Gov- , ernment’s political future] over the issue. Ranged against Mr Falldin were the opposition Social Democrats, Liberal and Conservative Party members of , his coalition, pro-nuclear , industrialists, and Labour’ leaders, who fear cuts in atomic pow'er will cause , unemployment. , The Centre’s Liberal and Conservative Cabinet part- I ners favour fulfilment of a more ambitious programme j i of 13 reactors, established] under the former Social De-1: mocratic Government. 11
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