Word: callaghans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armed police escort. The Washington Monument was temporarily closed to visitors: it was within the range of snipers. Affairs of state moved forward-cautiously. At the end of his visit with President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left quietly with no farewell ceremony; incoming British Prime Minister James Callaghan did not receive the traditional 19-gun salute, for fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours. The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody...
National Dignity. Giscard was joined in diplomatic battle by British Prime Minister James Callaghan. Before flying to Washington last week-aboard a chartered British Airways Concorde-he told the House of Commons: "It would be a great misfortune for the world's finest aircraft not to be allowed to land in one of the world's finest cities." At the White House and at luncheons with House and Senate foreign relations committees, Callaghan pressed hard for the Concorde's admission. Aides said he was "throwing all his prestige" behind the jet for "national dignity" rather than mere...
...Parliament, Industry Minister Gerald Kaufman said that British Leyland is "in danger of bleeding to death." Warned Prime Minister James Callaghan: "The biggest differential is between the man who is in a job and the man who is out of one, and some of them [the strikers] could...
...rely increasingly on the conservative strategy of holding down inflation by restricting the money supply. Healey, in fact, has already said as much, arguing that "wages can only rise above the level permitted by the supply of money at the cost of throwing people out of work." Or as Callaghan has put it, "The choice this year is a slight decrease in our living standard or a large increase in unemployment." Unfortunately, there is little sign that workers are getting the message...
...odds-on favorite to succeed the late British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland was Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, 59, who had long wanted the job. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan instead chose a dark horse: Dr. David Owen, 38, an ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named...