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...place on the back benches, there was no reason for anyone to mark her as a future Tory leader, much less Britain's first woman Prime Minister. She was not a member of any inner circle, not a protégée of any powerful party figure. Attractive in almost too meticulous a way, with a complexion as English as Devonshire cream and the instant smile of a doctor's receptionist, she looked rather like the chairman of a garden club in an affluent suburb. But in her first year as an M.P. she managed...
Britain's new Conservative government will not be an easy partner for the Carter Administration. Carter enjoyed a close, almost familial relationship with Callaghan, who was something of a "political uncle" to the President. For their first official meeting, Callaghan brought Carter a bolt of cloth for a suit in which pinstripes were made of tiny J.C.s, their common initials. It is not likely that Carter and Thatcher will develop an equally close relationship. "Margaret will start off despising Jimmy Carter," conceded one top Tory, "but responsibility will mellow her." There will be no lessening of Britain's commitment...
...proposals, which must be debated in the all-white South African Parliament but are almost certain to become public policy, are the product of a government-appointed commission on labor reform headed by Nicholas Wiehahn, a labor law expert who once worked on the railways as an apprentice stoker-a job that has always been reserved for whites. The government hopes the proposals will be seen as evidence that South Africa is pushing its labor practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan...
...face, the situation may help explain the mood of public disenchantment that has persisted long after the events-Viet Nam and Watergate-that were supposed to have caused it. Surely neither of those national traumas caused the drop of popular confidence in almost all key U.S. institutions that Pollster Louis Harris recently recorded. It also seems doubtful that either deprived the Administration's energy crusade of both popular support and belief. Could it be that many citizens simply feel foreclosed not only from knowledge but also from the power that knowledge would give them...
...officials also said that radiation levels inside the containment building are now at least as high as 30,000 rems, enough to kill anyone who enters almost instantly, and possibly as high as 50,000. The latter reading may be erroneous-possibly due to a "hot" particle on one device. By the NRC's reckoning, almost all the core's fuel elements are damaged, and even more radioactive material is exposed. New target date for entering the building: at least a year from...