Palme, Olof

*		1927
†		1986

Beruf
Swedish politician

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	studies law in the US and in Stockholm
	joins Social Democratic Labour Party (SAP) in 1949
	1963 enters government and helds several ministerial posts before assuming the leadership of the Party
	1969 prime minister; although losing his parliamentary majority in 1971, he successfully carries out major constitutional reforms; defeated in 1976; return to power in 1982, heading a minority government; re-elected in 1985
	shot and killed while walking home with his wife after a visit to a cinema