Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy partner for the Carter Administration. Carter enjoyed a close, almost familial relationship with Callaghan, who was something of a "political uncle" to the President. For their first official meeting, Callaghan brought Carter a bolt of cloth for a suit in which pinstripes were made of tiny J.C.s, their common initials. It is not likely that Carter and Thatcher will develop an equally close relationship. "Margaret will start off despising Jimmy Carter," conceded one top Tory, "but responsibility will mellow her." There will be no lessening of Britain's commitment to friendship with the U.S., but the Tories will...
...long since converted to tight money and tax cuts, became Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Nott, 47, a tough Cornishman once fired by Heath as too inflexible, became Secretary for Trade and Prices. John Biffen, 48, a deceptively shy but zealous right-wing purist and nationalistic opponent of the Common Market, was named Chief Secretary of the Treasury, in effect, director of the budget. Thatcher's one concession to the moderates on the economic front: confirming James Prior, 51, as Employment Secretary. A ruddy Suffolk farmer and most prominent of the so-called Tory social democrats, Prior has carefully...
...once worked on the railways as an apprentice stoker-a job that has always been reserved for whites. The government hopes the proposals will be seen as evidence that South Africa is pushing its labor practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan, the General Motors director who has drawn up a list of fair labor practices that many American firms in South Africa have agreed to follow. To judge by the angry reaction of several of South Africa's white labor...
Motzfeldt, a seal hunter's son from Qassimiut, a southern settlement, sets the first priority as fishing rights. Greenlanders now have exclusive rights up to twelve miles offshore, but Motzfeldt wants this extended to 100 miles. He threatens to pull out of the Common Market, to which Greenland reluctantly belongs through its link with Denmark, "if we do not get satisfaction" on fishing...
...grown so technical that some lawyers wonder whether ordinary electors can still adequately function as jurors. Says Attorney Gary Ahrens, a professor at the University of Iowa: "Practically nothing is commonsensical any more." Surely the spectacle of the public making decisions in semidarkness is an affront to common sense...