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Market Problems. Meanwhile, Heath's new government was already slightly embarrassed by the hasty arrival of South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller, who flew to London for talks with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Tories assumed that Muller intended to remind them about their promise to end the Labor government's 1964 embargo on arms sales to South Africa. The Labor Party's National Executive warned Heath, however, that such action could "endanger the existence of the Commonwealth and flout the authority of the United Nations...
...confidant because he felt that Heath knew more than anyone else about the party's affairs in Commons. During Britain's first unsuccessful negotiations to enter the Common Market, Heath led the delegation; later he became President of the Board of Trade, a Cabinet-level post. When Sir Alec Douglas-Home stepped aside as leader of the Opposition after his 1964 loss to Harold Wilson, Heath saw his opportunity. "Ted's camp left nothing to chance," said one Tory. "Everybody was canvassed?everybody. Nothing was left undone. They treated it like a war and they were determined...
FOREIGN SECRETARY: Sir Alec DouglasHome, 66, former Prime Minister and one of the party's grand old men. Sir Alec has remained at the center of Tory policymaking since stepping down from leadership in 1965, and as Foreign Secretary will place heavy emphasis on re-establishing British prestige abroad...
Janet (Catherine Burns) is one of those 19-year-old girls who cannot turn the pages of a book without developing a crush on its author. Writer Alec Kooning (Kevin O'Connor), urbane, 50, short of wind and past the crest of his talent, cannot receive an adoring letter from such a girl without replying in grateful ardor. Females being females, with their minds "half on virginity, half on the game," Janet maneuvers her hero into a meeting...
...Poor Alec ruefully realizes that he makes better love in print than in person. The moment of climax is a moment of crushing, middle-aged anticlimax: "I can't make love in the past tense, and love seems to be all in the past tense for me nowadays." British Playwright Stanley Eveling then upends his hourglass plot with ironic precision to turn Janet into a successful young writer...