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...says he cannot remember a time when the country was so full of fear. He recalls how people sneered at his call for the "politics of joy" in 1968 and concedes that it probably did not suit the climate. He was struck by a remark British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made to him a few years ago, that sometimes a country needs a leader who can seem more like a family doctor. It helps Humphrey understand why people receive him so cheerfully now. He says, "I'm not a hater...
Though Britain's recovery has been helped by the improving international economic climate, the cure has been largely self-administered. The main feature is Prime Minister Harold Wilson's deal with trade unions to hold wage increases to a maximum of $12 per week, thus slowing the inflationary spiral. In addition to wage restraint, the Labor government is seeking to put Britain's nationalized industries, which have eaten up $18 billion in taxes and loans over the past few years, on a sounder economic footing. Instead of being run for such "social goals" as full employment...
Carter has nominated Harold Brown, president of the California Institute of Technology, to be his Secretary of Defense. At a recent press conference, Brown denied his advocacy of increased bombing over Hanoi and Haiphong while Secretary of the Air Force in 1968, and stated that it was only one of several alternative proposals he had put forward. He failed to mention that his other two proposals also called for increased bombing of Indochina. The Pentagon Papers also reveal Brown did in fact advocate the first plan and that a year before this he had played the major role in dissuading...
Recently Icelandic naval vessels were sent out to harass British fishing trawlers by dragging the waters with a device that cuts the fishing-net towlines. Enraged British fishermen demanded government protection, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson reluctantly dispatched three Royal Navy frigates and three ocean tugs to fishing areas near Iceland to run interference for the trawlers...
Early last November Riccardo presented Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson with a prickly problem. Unless the British government agreed to provide massive aid for Chrysler's troubled British subsidiary, Riccardo said, the company would be forced to shut down its five major plants in Britain and cashier its 25,000 employees there. For a while it seemed that Riccardo, whose sometimes brusque manner long ago earned him the nickname "the Flamethrower," would have to do just that. Wilson denounced the Riccardo ultimatum, angrily protesting that Chrysler had left the government "with a pistol at its head...