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...Rhodesia, Wilson stuck by his proposal that a referendum be held on independence, despite the obvious difficulties in arranging safeguards to protect black voters. A majority of the delegates voted instead for the proposal embodied in the awkward acronym NIBMAR (No Independence Before Majority African Rule). Home Secretary James Callaghan angered nonwhite Commonwealth members by refusing to guarantee a welcome for any and all British passport holders of Asian descent. His refusal was particularly galling to East African nations, which have renewed a harsh campaign against thousands of Asian merchants in their midst. Since the majority hold British rather than...
...been registered as female at birth and females cannot inherit baronetcies. "My client," Sir Ewan's counsel retorted, "has been male since birth. He was wrongly registered as a female." Earlier this year, an Edinburgh court accepted Sir Ewan's arguments, and last week Home Secretary James Callaghan settled the matter by ordering that Sir Ewan's name be placed on the official roll of baronets...
Blunt & Brutal. Jenkins, who took over the chancellorship last November after James Callaghan quit in humiliation because of the devaluation, reject ed the half measures with which Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government in the past has tried to cope with Brit ain's worsening economy. Instead, he struck squarely at the most bothersome aspect of Britain's financial weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets...
...unchallenged right, tracing back to Magna Carta, of all British citizens to enter the home country at will. As many as 180 M.P.s either abstained or absented themselves during the ballot. Many newspapers bitterly branded the bill as a betrayal; the Sunday Times caricatured a bloated Home Secretary James Callaghan under a sign: "I'm not blacking Britain." Demonstrators marched with petitions to 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. And the Archbishop of Canterbury, among others, joined a futile mini-filibuster during the House of Lords' longest sitting (19 hours, 16 minutes) of the century...
Easing the Sting. During the all-night Commons debate, Callaghan, the government spokesman, tried to remove some of the bill's sting by promising that no British citizen expelled from Kenya would be denied admission to Britain-though he would not actually write the promise into the law. Later the Home Office thoroughly muddled the situation by explaining that, even if there are a few "humanitarian" admissions, the quota system will stand. That left both critics and supporters of the law so hopelessly confused that the London Times declared: "It has been a wretched affair." Whatever the precise meaning...