Word: harold
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...Near Defeat. The chorus of critics-public and private-was saying that Sir Alec was his party's own worst liability. In Commons, he had proved no match for the acid jousts with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. On TV, he came across to the nation as a frail, pale shadow of the graceful, witty private Sir Alec. The latest National Opinion Poll had Labor back in front of the Tories 46% to 41%. On a man-to-man popularity basis, polls invariably showed Home trailing Wilson. One gave Wilson the nod in virtually every category, from "tough" (Wilson...
...boundary dividing North and South Korea; today, despite an uneasy truce line guarded by 50,000 Americans and 550,000 South Korean troops, South Korea is a sovereign, non-Communist nation. Viet Nam: no conclusion is in sight, and Hanoi leaders are described by recent British Special Envoy Harold Davies as "intoxicated with their successes...
Pogrund's exposé was based on the experience of South African Art Teacher Robert Harold Strachan, 39, who had served a three-year sentence for political conspiracy, and was so sickened by what he saw that he went to the Rand Daily Mail to tell all. Editor Laurence Gandar (TIME, Jan. 8), checked carefully, put Pogrund to work, then published Strachan's appalling story of filth and disease, of beatings and other tortures suffered mainly by blacks in South Africa's prisons...
...warned against negotiating from weakness: "It takes two sides to negotiate, and what the other side makes plain is that all it wants is total victory." Doubtful of the chances of peace until the Viet Cong have suffered some military reverses, Sulzberger prophesied the collapse of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's recent mission to Viet Nam: "One purpose the Wilson peace tour can achieve when it fails-as it almost certainly will-is to make more Americans and America's friends finally realize that what the Viet Cong and Hanoi want is peace at no price...
Fact was, millions of Britons shared the Duke's view of the Rhodesian problem, which until recently was also official policy of Harold Wilson's government. And few really wanted to muzzle the royal consort. "Over a period of years, he has succeeded in being pungent, constructive, and to the point on an exceptionally wide range of topics," commented the London Times. "The nation would be the loser if any serious attempt were made to impose some constitutional silence upon the Duke...