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Although he carefully refrained from personal attacks on Thatcher, Callaghan time and again put forward the warning that a Tory victory would mean more hardship for the average family, more privileges for the rich. "The welfare, the prosperity, the jobs and the care of older people depend upon a Labor majority," he told a partisan crowd of 70 people in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall last week. Responding to Thatcher's tough stand on union abuses, he charged that Tory plans for legal reforms in industrial relations could lead to a disastrous conflict of views between the unions...
...that Americans are unwilling to reduce energy consumption. They have not been asked to do so as part of any long-range conservation effort. Our leaders should be looking to the future and providing us with a national environmental plan. Such a national plan could deal with the hardship of reduced consumption...
After Viet Nam, John Kennedy's "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship ..." formula rings like the penny-bright, dangerous rhetoric that it was. The old policy of containment is, of course, long dead, as is the corollary view of a Sino-Soviet Communist monolith probing ever outward. It was precisely the containment-monolith-domino view of geopolitics that led the U.S. into Viet Nam. Says Henry Kissinger: "We've learned two somewhat contradictory things. One, that our resources are limited in relation to the total number of problems that exist in the world. We have...
...SCEOC is also empowered to pay outstanding bills, loan space heaters, or help out people who are under financial hardship because they chose to pay their heating or utility bills...
...late Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress, conceded that corporate withdrawal would entail "hardship for Africans." "But," he argued, if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and, on a small scale (so far), we die at the whim of a policeman...