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Carter's enthusiasm for Great Britain's James Callaghan is that of one pol for another. His regard for France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is rooted in the Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...
...extraordinary achievements as Secretary of State, the friends he made in the power fraternity, have given him a postgraduate status among diplomats that has never existed before. Germany's Helmut Schmidt breakfasted secretly with Kissinger at a British resort in April. Britain's James Callaghan and France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing both invited him to dinner when they learned that Henry was coming to their respective countries. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin asks him to lunch every few weeks in Washinngton. When Egypt's President Sadat came to the U.S. he asked to see Kissinger...
Ignoring the plea of their chief, delegates to the convention of the Transport and General Workers' Union last week voted for a motion that effectively scuttled the landmark agreement on wage restraint between Britain's unions and the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan. The vote to demand substantial wage increases was a deep personal humiliation for Jones, who in 1973 had helped draw up the agreement. In a weary voice, he declared that the TGWU action would lead to "a wage scramble, renewed inflation, increased unemployment and new trouble for the pound...
...Confidence Vote. It could also lead to the fall of the Labor government. The agreement on voluntary wage restraints, grandly dubbed the "social contract," had constituted the Callaghan government's most compelling argument for remaining in office. If the Labor Party is unable to control or moderate the unions' wage demands, thus further aggravating inflation (now running at 17% annually), Callaghan could face a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons that he would probably lose. The resulting election might be a Tory landslide. Already David Steel has threatened to withdraw his pledge to support the Callaghan...
...turmoil? There was reason for skepticism. Only two weeks earlier, after all, Big Daddy had merrily hoaxed 33 national representatives at the Commonwealth Conference in London. First it was announced that he was flying in to a meeting to which he had been expressly disinvited by Prime Minister James Callaghan. Then came stories that his plane was circling Europe in search of a proper landing spot. Finally the truth, he had never left Uganda at all. Amin, apparently, is still in a joking mood. After rumors built up for two days, a New York radio reporter managed to reach...