Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What infuriates me, as a daughter of Britain and a student of Arthurian legend, is to read again in White about the audacity of the Kennedys in presenting that unspectacular Administration as "Camelot." It is an insult to those of us with sense enough to recognize a Madison Avenue promotion when we see one, and it is quite galling to see how the American press promotes this myth. Let the Kennedys and their "historians" fall back on the Blarney Stone, where they belong...
...participants arrived in Britain for the talks, nerves were on edge. There were fears that the discussions might end in more acrimony, as well as rumors of a terrorist plot against the visiting officials. British security forces decided at the last minute to move the conference from London's modern and more convenient Churchill Hotel to the remote splendor of Leeds Castle. Security was extremely tight. Dayan and Kamel landed in a special section of London's Heathrow Airport, which had been barricaded by tanks, armored cars and British troops. Vance's jet was diverted...
...agenda had customarily been what ought to be done about the white regimes that are suppressing black majorities in Rhodesia and South Africa. That issue surfaced once again last week, to be sure: the OAU decided unanimously to support all-party Rhodesian talks, backed by the U.S. and Britain, that would have to include leaders of the black nationalist Patriotic Front. But the larger issue that bothered everyone in Khartoum was the proper African response to military and political incursions by both East and West, capped by the French and Belgian effort to put down a rebellion...
...keep inflation at a low 2.7%. Schmidt promised to do what he had planned even before the summit: put in a stimulus plan. It calls for pumping $7 billion into the West German economy, largely through tax cuts, and should make his country a larger buyer of imports. Britain's James Callaghan, who faces elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding output by a modest 1 % while keeping up the fight against inflation, now down to 7.4% from 27% four years ago. President Valéry Giscard...
...Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., West Germany...