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Sweden to Apply to Join European Community: Emphasizing that joining the 12-nation bloc would not compromise the country’s neutrality, Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson said the end of the Cold War prompted the decision--as did a desire to avoid being closed out of trading with EC nations, Stockholm’s most important export market. “We are interested in achieving results . . . which is easier within the framework of the EC,” he said.
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