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Poll Reversal. But Labor, led by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 57, has ample ammunition to fire back. The Tory slogan is "a fraud," Wilson railed last week. "The short answer is that for some months now no one has governed Britain." Labor's battle cry will be a "fair society," accompanied by a promise to repeal the hated Industrial Relations Act, which sharply restricts union activities, introduce across-the-board food subsidies and set up a new prices-and-income board under the direct control of Parliament. The party's strongest pitch will be on inflation. Food...
...HAROLD WILSON's Labor Party is British Prime Minister Edward Heath's opponent in this month's parliamentary election in name only. Heath's real opponents are the militant coal miners who have staunchly refused to let Heath get away without paying them a decent wage for their dangerous and difficult work...
Sharp Attacks. Similar arguments, as well as an intense lobbying campaign that involved buttonholing about 70 Senators, enabled Schlesinger to get the Pentagon's 1974 procurement budget through Congress virtually unscathed. This year though, congressional critics will make a sharp attack on the counterforce nuclear strategy. Democratic Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa complains: "Either the doctrine is nothing new or it is the opening gun in a new arms race leading to a first-strike capability for the U.S. Schlesinger ruled out our seeking a first-strike force in his confirmation hearings. Is he now trying to reverse himself?" Warns...
...evidence that McGahey was trying to bring down his government. The Labor Party leaped into the fray with a statement repudiating "any attempt by Communists or others to use the miners as a political battering ram." Then, to a burst of cheers from Labor benches in Parliament, Opposition Leader Harold Wilson declared that "the extremists in the situation are the vice president of the N.U.M. [McGahey] and Mr. Heath." The heated exchange caused a flurry of partisan name calling but hardly helped solve the miners' problem...
...Died. Harold Dunbar Cooley, 76, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina from 1934 to 1966; of emphysema; in Wilson, N.C. Cooley was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for 16 years and veteran of countless annual farm battles. He was the only Southern Democratic Congressman who survived a refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" against racial integration...