World Notes Sweden a Narrow Win for Palme; World Notes El Salvador "I'M Fine, I'M Fine, Papa"

"The Swedish model has survived. We have won a battle for the society of well-being against the neoliberal right!" So said a relieved Olof Palme, 58, after winning a fourth term last week as Sweden's Prime Minister. But the veteran Social Democratic Party leader could hardly boast of a triumph at the polls. His center-left party, which stands squarely for the welfare state, actually lost seven of its 166 seats in the 349-member Riksdag (parliament), as its share of the popular vote fell from 45.6% in 1982 to 44.9%. Thus Palme will have to rely increasingly on the support of the 19 Communist deputies in parliament (the Communists lost one seat).

The Social Democrats and the Communists were not alone in giving ground. Two of the three opposition parties, the Centrists and the Moderates, had significantly smaller totals than expected; the exception was the Liberal Party, which received 14.3% of the vote, more than doubling its 1982 tally. And what about Palme's dependence on the Communists, who want more expansive wage and public spending policies even as the government is expected to propose an austerity program? Said the Prime Minister: "It's a situation we have lived with before."

The message was monitored last week on a radio frequency normally used by pilots. It included a list of demands and a recording of what sounded like the voice of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.

In return for letting Duarte Duran go, the captors apparently want, among other things, freedom for several F.M.L.N. guerrillas being held by the government. So far, the government has refused to respond publicly to the kidnapers' demands. The President, meanwhile, acknowledged his personal agony. "If those who oversaw this terrible deed sought to torment a father who is President of the republic, they have succeeded," he told an Independence Day gathering in San Salvador. "They have also provoked the anguish of a mother, the despairing tears of small children, the pain of the people and the shock of civilized nations." At week's end his daughter's whereabouts remained a mystery.