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...began flowing to Britain in June, arriving by tanker from the Argyll field. Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, raising a flask of crude on high, called the event cause for "a day of national celebration." Next month oil should begin moving from Britain's promising Forties field through a 120-mile pipeline to Cruden Bay on Scotland's east coast. Some time during the next few weeks, crude will begin arriving at Teesside, England, through a 220-mile pipeline from the Ekofisk field in Norway's sector of the North Sea. The oil belongs to Norway...
...Foot, the unions' staunchest defender in the Cabinet, who during the last election campaign flatly committed himself to quit if compulsory wage controls were enforced. There were fears that a Foot resignation would trigger the fall of the Wilson Cabinet. Not only would leftist Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn have had little choice but to follow suit; the unions would have withdrawn their support from the government's program as well...
...Britain's rainbow began flowing ashore from the North Sea for the first time last week. The victory over wind, sleet, 100-ft. waves and British muddle came on the 160th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, and it sent Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn into a fit of hyperbole as he opened the first valve on the Isle of Grain. Benn held aloft a souvenir bottle of the crude and announced to an assembly that included U.S. Ambassador Elliot Richardson: "This is much more significant and historic than the moon shot, which only brought back soil and rock...
...Benn's analogy was not altogether farfetched. The technology of North Sea production is indeed impressive. But the prospective financial benefits are hardly enough to send Britons into orbit. The nation last year suffered a $9 billion payments deficit; production from the small Argyll field off the east coast of Scotland-the first tapped-will lighten that load by only $140 million annually. The Argyll field and three others to be opened this year will supply a bare 2% of Britain's oil needs...
...present Parliament, oratory is often more tinny than golden. The only bon mot of the day came from Labor's former Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn. The embattled Benn responded to Tory taunts that he resign by taking an ungentlemanly swipe at Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher: "If the opposition wants my head on a salver, the leader of the Conservative Party will have to be a lot more seductive Salome than she has been so far." Less dazzling repartee came from left-wing Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, who responded testily to a pro-Market interjection by shouting...