Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laborites will answer that Britain is returning to better economic times-and ask whether it will continue to do so under Tory rule. Thanks in large part to North Sea oil, and despite the unemployment problem, Britain has steadily climbed out of its economic morass of three years ago. Prime Minister Callaghan feels his government deserves the credit. One of his last acts before Parliament recessed was to secure endorsement of a 5% suggested national limit on wage increases. Previous Labor-inspired wage guidelines have been instrumental in reducing Britain's inflation rate to 7.5%, from...
Looking pale and drawn, the former leader of Britain's Liberal Party was driven last week to the police station in the small Somerset town of Minehead. A court clerk asked whether his name was John Jeremy Thorpe. The answer was an all but inaudible "It is." Following a hearing that lasted a scant 21 minutes, the slight, dapper Thorpe, 49, was released on $10,000 bail after being formally charged with conspiracy to murder. The alleged target: Norman Scott, 37, a down-and-out male model who 2½ years ago publicly claimed that he and Thorpe...
...couldn't go through with it." Although Newton's confession was considered suspect by many, it was enough to set the police digging further in the direction of Thorpe's chum, David Holmes, who had admitted to paying Norman Scott $7,000 in hush money before Britain's February 1974 general elections, allegedly "without the knowledge" of Thorpe...
...British connection would probably make Boeing's new-generation aircraft easier to sell in the Common Market. European governments sometimes have forced their airlines to buy their own country's planes even though they were inferior to U.S. craft. France and Britain have been the worst offenders, saddling Air France and British Airways with money losers from the Caravelle to the Concorde. The European carriers now claim that they are free to pick the best jet. The problem is that the Boeing 767 and Airbus 310 are so close in price and performance that the Europeans?and the dozens...
...Americans traveling to Europe on cut-rate flights found that there were not enough bargain seats to accommodate the heavy crush heading home. Others were held up by a slowdown of 2,500 French air traffic controllers. Their action snarled traffic across Europe, but the worst congestion was in Britain and France...