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...stepped outside to get his morning newspaper, he recalled, "there were the goddam reporters waiting outside." Instead of going to his Senate office, Muskie summoned his top staff men to his house. For nearly four hours he huddled with them, making calls to Senator Hart, Iowa Senator Harold Hughes and Arizona Congressman Morris Udall. He had already called his wife Jane in Kennebunk Beach, Me., and she urged him not to accept...
...Commons, Heath firmly stood by the Industrial Relations Act. Some Laborites tried to canonize the Pentonville Five by comparing them to the Tolpuddle Martyrs-six laborers who were sent to a penal colony in 1834 for organizing a trade union. Labor Party Chief Harold Wilson, who led the attack on Heath in Commons, scourged Tory labor policy as "inept and malevolent." He ignored the fact that as Prime Minister in 1969 he had not only pressed unsuccessfully for similar reforms but also called them "essential...
...Although Harold Kanavos, president of the Cambridge Plaza Trust, agreed that there were long-term advantages to delaying construction of his projected hotel, he said that he was under economic pressure to start soon. He already has his permit and his building plans conform to Cambridge's building and zoning codes...
...McGovernites have been curiously inattentive to some of their wealthiest potential backers. In California, Millionaire Max Palevsky, who has contributed $350,000 for the McGovern campaign so far, felt slighted that he was not named finance chairman. Some, like San Francisco Realtor Walter Shorenstein and Los Angeles Realtor Harold Willens, are cautiously waiting to see how McGovern's campaign shapes up before they commit their funds. Says Shorenstein: "Our system requires a growth economy. You have to have free enterprise and competition and a good business atmosphere. If we are going to inhibit opportunity with heavy taxes and prohibitive...
While Whitelaw was conferring with the Protestants, British Opposition Leader Harold Wilson talked to I.R.A. Provisional chiefs in London in hopes of working out a new ceasefire. But the government and the I.R.A. were nowhere near a compromise. The British insisted that Catholic "nogo" areas be opened gradually. The I.R.A. ambitiously demanded release and amnesty for political prisoners, a promise of British troop withdrawal from Northern Ireland by 1975, and some sort of British declaration that would not rule out the possibility of eventually merging Ulster into the Irish Republic...