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Even for a queen, a $522,000 raise is a princely sum. Although British Prime Minister James Callaghan is struggling to keep pay raises no higher than 10%, Parliament last week awarded Queen Elizabeth an 18% hike in her allowance-to $3.4 million. Besides the toll of inflation, said a palace spokesman, "there have also been extra costs due to the Silver Jubilee." Other royal coffers will get some extra coins as well. The Queen Mother is to get an additional $27,000, bringing her allowance up to $279,000, and Princess Margaret, who was awarded a $9,000 raise...
...League of Women Voters took out a small ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, urging weekend gamblers to stay away from Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and other Nevada gambling spots. Recalls Jeane Bendorf, chairman of the chapter's political task force: "Nevada Governor Mike O'Callaghan called and screamed at us to stop any further ads. We realized we had hit a pressure point." At a meeting in February, the NOW national board set up an economic-sanctions committee...
Whether the timing is right for such stimulus to the economy is highly debatable. Prime Minister James Callaghan a few weeks ago told the Labor Party conference in Brighton that Britain is on the verge of an era of prosperity that "will eclipse anything seen since we became an industrial power 200 years ago." In his speech last week, Healey optimistically forecast that inflation would fall to a single figure. At present, inflation, though down, is still running at a high annual rate of 16.5%, and some unions are pushing for wage boosts going beyond the government's guideline...
...fact, the budget seemed shaped much more by political than by economic considerations. After trailing badly for a long time. Labor is now running neck and neck with the Conservative Party in public-opinion polls. Callaghan must call an election within the next 24 months, but could do so earlier if Labor takes a strong lead?as it might if Healey's minibudget proves popular. The London Times editorialized that the budget seemed designed "to keep the political initiative rather than for any purpose of managing the economy." Tories, bitter because Labor had stolen their policy of aid to small...
Among the European leaders who called Schmidt to offer their support as well as their sympathy was British Prime Minister James Callaghan; Schmidt gladly accepted the offer. Accordingly, the British provided the West Germans with 1) special, highly sensitive listening devices for locating the terrorists within the plane and 2) a supply of British "stun grenades," which explode without scattering metal fragments, but can immobilize an enemy for about six seconds with their sound and flash. The stun grenades-along with two experts from Britain's crack Special Air Service regiment-were soon en route to Dubai...