Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plate fund raiser in Pensacola in September. Gregory boasts of hobnobbing with the Carters on ten occasions since the President's Inauguration, a count partly substantiated by records in Washington. He twice attended soirees at the White House: one in March 1977 to honor British Prime Minister James Callaghan, and another in September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard Air Force One as a "personal friend to the President." Gregory made his twin-engined Beechcraft available to ferry Carter...
...marred by fighting. As Kapuuo's cortege passed through Katatura, a black township outside the modern territorial capital of Windhoek, a group of Ovambo tribesmen, the Hereros' traditional enemies, threw stones at the chiefs followers. Enraged members of Kapuuo's home guard immediately retaliated with ancient British rifles in an attack that left five dead and eleven wounded. At the funeral, thousands of Herero women garbed in scarlet mourning dresses wailed and chanted under cloudy skies. Although most of the orators counseled restraint, one warned pointedly: "The grave of the chief is open...
More important, Healey also raised the thresholds of taxable income, liberating some 360,000 families at the poverty level from taxes altogether and softening the bite on low and middle income citizens-though only slightly. The average British family man, who earns $7,410 a year and gives up fully 20% of that in taxes (compared with 14% for the median U.S. taxpayer), can look forward to keeping an additional $3.50 of his weekly pay; that is about enough for one extra beer a day at the local...
...trouble was that Healey's fine-tuning of the budget seems to have been so carefully calibrated that few could get excited about it-and the British get more excited about budgets than most people. "Too cautious," groused a Trades Union Congress chieftain. "Politically timid," grumbled Confederation of British Industry President John Greenborough. Healey himself was partly to blame. Expansive and voluble, he is given to flights of optimism. For example, he has predicted a drop in the inflation rate this year to 7%-down from the present 9.1% rate and a peak of 26% three years...
...budget: "His conversion to tax cuts is election-deep." Already the Tories are crying that the Callaghan-Healey largesse did not go far enough. Laborites also concede that Thatcher unleashed a powerful issue in immigration. Observes Home Secretary Merlyn Rees: "She lost the Asian vote, but she gained the British working class...