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...relieved. Le Monde estimated that by increasing coal production and reducing consumption, the U.S. could realize 55% of the possible energy savings for the entire industrialized world. Concluded the Paris newspaper: "These nations can therefore say, 'At last!' " A senior aide to British Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn commented, "It's an act of considerable courage for the leader of the largest energy user in the world to set out policies for conservation on such a scale...
...drawing power of Party Left-Winger Michael Foot, who led the first ballot with 90 votes, to 84 for the Foreign Secretary. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, a favorite of Labor intellectuals, polled only a disappointing 56 votes on that ballot. Along with two other contenders-Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, a leftist, and middle-roading Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland-Jenkins dropped...
...chances of Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, another moderate, were damaged by his verbal abuse of the leftists during a recent parliamentary debate. Two others not given much chance to survive: Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland, who is not well known among British voters, and Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, the extreme left apostate peer who has long been a burr to Labor moderates, notably including Wilson. Indeed, Wilson probably would not have stepped down had he thought a leftist like Benn or even Foot might succeed him and wreck the new counterinflationary economic strategy...
...ranch at Floresville, 180 miles east of Houston, where he raises Santa Gertrudis cattle. As the top man in Houston's largest law firm, he makes international business deals for major U.S. corporations. In Britain last month he met with Cabinet Officers James Callaghan and Anthony Wedgwood Benn; last week he left for the Far East...
...Benn T. Kershaw Upper Darby...