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...Nevada, Democrat Mike O'Callaghan and Republican Ed Fike both took a hard line on crime and campus disturbances. It did not hurt O'Callaghan, a former schoolteacher, that the Republicans bungled a rebuttal to Columnist Jack Anderson's charges that Fike had taken part in shady land deals...
Best Advice. Powell's slur drew an angry and immediate riposte from the Labor Party. "If Powell has evidence of traitors in government departments," said Home Secretary James Callaghan, who oversees British internal security, "he has not made any approach to me. If this is more than a smear scare, I must ask him to come to me at once." But Heath, who in 1968 expelled Powell from his Shadow Cabinet because of his racial views, refused to censure Powell for fear of provoking a split in the Tories. Many theorized that Powell, foreseeing a Tory defeat...
...years. Retail price increases this year will run about 7%. Unemployment, at 2.5% as of last week, is the highest for any May since 1940. In addition, there was the prospect that renewed troubles this summer in Northern Ireland would embarrass Wilson. Until Wilson's Home Secretary, James Callaghan, last week pressured South Africa's all-white Sprinkbok cricket team into canceling its scheduled visit, there was also the likelihood of anti-apartheid protests from British liberals, which might have stirred up a pro-Tory "law-and-order" vote...
...situation stirred an uproar. In the House of Lords, a Laborite peeress asked scathingly if the government considered it "conducive to British prestige that holders of British passports should be wandering about the world like Flying Dutchmen." Finally, beleaguered Home Secretary James Callaghan issued Ranjan a three-month entry permit. He also warned: "I cannot promise to make it easy for those who try to jump the queue...
...Home Secretary Callaghan who led the fight against hanging in the House of Commons last week. "There are times when Parliament has to act in advance of public opinion and give a lead," he said. He pointed out that before 1965, the actual number of executions in Britain had averaged only two a year-hardly enough to affect "the credibility of law and order." Most Laborites favored abolition of the death penalty, and many Tories opposed it. But in the balloting, numerous Tories, including Opposition Leader Ted Heath, voted with the majority. By 343 to 185, the Commons voted...