Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempting to rule in Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There were no effective governments at all last week in Italy and Belgium. In France, isolated and ailing President Georges Pompidou did little to restore confidence in his ability to govern by a largely cosmetic Cabinet reshuffling. In Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt, increasingly distant and indecisive, has seen his party's popularity plummet to its lowest level since 1957. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has scraped into office with an avowed distaste for his country's membership in the European Economic Community...
FOREIGN SECRETARY: James Callaghan, 61, an avuncular pragmatist who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary in earlier Wilson administrations. A firm Atlanticist and NATO supporter, Callaghan is skeptical about the Common Market but not hostile to it. In Middle East affairs, he will be less ardently Arabist than were Heath and Sir Alec Douglas-Home...
...CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Denis Healey, 57, a wartime commando major and former Defense Secretary from 1964 to 1970. He now concedes that he is "a gamekeeper turned poacher." He is likely to wield a light ax where defense is concerned but supports orthodox financial policies...
HOME SECRETARY: Roy Jenkins, 54, a committed European who led the rebel Labor faction that favored Common Market membership, an issue over which he resigned from the party's shadow cabinet at one point. As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970, he was credited with putting Britain back on its economic feet. He is regarded as one of Labor's most thoughtful and articulate spokesmen...
...challenge and win the necessary sustenance from this grudging and barren host. Their faces wrinkled and cracked like the adobe they have stolen from the earth, these Chicanos lead a life radically different from that of most Americans. Here churchbells are prefered to the telephone's ring, John Chancellor is voted down in favor of radio music, Sundays are for praying and old women pick up trash by the roadside. Necessity is the drive behind existence...