Word: callaghans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter praised the West Germans for the "courage of their decision." Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, whose country mounted the successful rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe Airport on July 3, 1976, cabled, "It was indeed a salvation in which all free men rejoice." British Prime Minister James Callaghan, arriving in Bonn last week on a previously scheduled visit, warmly pumped Schmidt's hand and declared, "It's a great day for you. It's a great day for Germans. That was a superb...
...rate of 830,000 bbl. per day, the nation will produce about half of the oil that it consumes this year, saving some $3.6 billion in its balance of payments. Oilmen expect that the country will be come self-sufficient in petroleum by 1980. Said Prime Minister James Callaghan after a visit to the huge "Forties" field: "God has given us an opportunity we have not had in a century. When you think about the impact of this [oil] on the country's fortunes, it is really astounding...
...appearances were canceled. President Walter Scheel dropped all appointments outside the capital, and Chancellor Schmidt's wife Loki returned her tickets to a premiere performance of Aida. Henry Ford II moved a scheduled business meeting of the Ford Motor Co. from Cologne to England; British Prime Minister James Callaghan postponed a state visit to Bonn in deference to Schmidt's domestic problems...
Dangerous as a defeat would have been to Callaghan, the victory, ironically, assured very little. The decision on the twelve-month rule is nonbinding; the T.U.C. has no power to prevent an individual union from breaching it. Workers on the factory floor hold the key to any policy of restraint by individual unions, and just now they are in a rebellious mood. After the congress, some union leaders hinted that they were fully prepared to flout the twelve-month rule; Arthur Scargill, Communist leader of the Yorkshire miners, said, "This decision makes no difference to the miners' wage claim...
While James Callaghan was making his plea to the trades unions for moderation, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher was flying off for an eight-day visit to the U.S. Buoyed by recent by-election triumphs and polls showing her party well ahead of Labor, Mrs. Thatcher is confident that she will soon become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Partly because of a casual commitment made on his visit to Britain last May, Jimmy Carter is making an exception in her case to a new White House practice that opposition leaders are received by the Vice President. While in Manhattan...