Word: gough
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...countries rimming the area (India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya and Singapore)-and U.S. congressional critics as well-fear that the base will increase big-power rivalries in the region. Last week Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam joined the chorus of critics, saying that he would try to persuade Britain's Labor government to abrogate the agreement made by former Prime Minister Edward Heath. So far, Harold Wilson's new government has said only that the plan, like all foreign policy issues, was under "review...
...just not acceptable that a director of a major commonwealth enterprise should be on pillow-talk terms with the head of government," sniffed the Melbourne Herald, Australia's largest evening paper. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 57, had not been caught in flagrante delicto; rather his wife Margaret, 54, was being heckled about her latest job. A trained social worker, Margaret Whitlam is a director of the Commonwealth Hostels Ltd., an organization that administers government housing. "Drop it, Meg," was the Herald's blunt advice. But Mrs. Whitlam, whose liberal views on abortion, sex and marijuana have shocked Australians...
...Australia, constitutional referendums are traditional bearers of woe: only five out of 26 have won popular support in the 72 years since federation. The latest referendum-giving Gough Whit-lam's Labor government control over prices and income, as a means of controlling inflation-was no exception. It was resoundingly defeated, with the incomes question drawing an alltime low yes vote of about...
Curiously, Australia's new Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam seemed to rile Heath more by warning the underdeveloped Commonwealth countries to beware of multinational corporations. Heath retorted that if Whitlam had problems with such corporations in Australia, he should enact antitrust laws. "That would ensure competition," the British Conservative leader said. "But," he added, cuttingly, "that is not something socialist prime ministers like to hear...
...White House driveway there was something close to a traffic jam. Scarcely had the Shah of Iran driven away in his flag-bedecked limousine than Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pulled up to the door. Yet even as Whitlam walked out the door, he could see that disk-of-the-sun flags were already flying for the next official guest, Japan's Kakuei Tanaka...