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...maintain its majority in Parliament, but its concessions to Scottish national feeling came too little and too late. Labour promises about the same as the Conservatives--a consultative assembly with power over aspects of housing, education, and welfare. The Wilson government has moved the Office of Offshore Procurement to Edinburgh and promised to move another 7,000 civil service jobs to that city, but the SNP's supporters are intent on Scottish control of North Sea Oil profits, something neither major party will contemplate at this time. The Scottish Labour Party only approved limited devolution two weeks ago, and then...
Comic Kaleidoscope. One kind of clowning that Dale had not considered was Shakespearean. He had not even read the plays when, in 1966, Director Frank Dunlop called to ask him to do The Winter's Tale at the Edinburgh Festival. "I said, 'No, I can't do that.' He said, 'How the bloody hell do you know you can't do it?' I turned to my wife and told her, This guy I don't even know is swearing at me because I won't do Shakespeare.' " But Shakespeare...
...myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow). At week's end, nearly 70 of the world's leaders, including Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the Duke of Edinburgh, flew to Paris to pay him final tribute. There, in the Gothic splendor of Notre Dame Cathedral, Francois Cardinal Marty, Archbishop of Paris, celebrated the memorial Mass. Among the dignitaries was President Nixon, who stayed on for a day to meet with European leaders, notably Brandt and Wilson...
...their position as a nation of 5 million people with its own language, democratic tradition and legal system, but without so much as a single self-governing political body. "We have an entire nation that has been submerged into believing it is inferior," says Author Robert Shirley, 46, of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Recalls Hugh MacDiarmid, the country's greatest living poet: "When I was in school, you were punished if you lapsed into the Scots dialect. You were never taught much more about your own country than, of course, what a great thing...
...characteristically understated and laconic fashion, the Scots about five years ago began to feel a new sense of confidence. "The Nationalists," says Edinburgh Journalist Chris Baur, "began meeting all over the country, gathering in groups of 15 or 20, just talking about policy and the issues and enjoying themselves." North Sea oil, with its promise of doubling the country's revenues from whisky (some $250 million annually in sales to the U.S. alone), ships, foodstuffs and tartan knits, became the Nationalists' crunching argument. With annual profits of $1.5 billion expected to flow in from the North...