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Meanwhile on the left, the Labor opposition led by Harold Wilson dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...
...Homecoming. Harold Pinter, Marlboro Theater Co. Tues.-Sun, at 8, mat. Sat. and Sun. at 3, $3.50, students...
...Prime Minister very nearly had to make good on that promise. As antiMarket Tory M.P.s defected to the opposition lobby, his government was saved by only eight votes, five of them from the tiny Liberal Party. Labor M.P.s danced up and down shouting "Resign!" and "Out! Out!" Opposition Leader Harold Wilson, who as Prime Minister had sought Common Market membership for Britain on much the same terms that he now opposes, declared: "The vote made it clear that the Prime Minister has not a shred of authority for pursuing his European policy," and predicted "months of bitter debate" over Common...
...Homecoming. Harold Pinter, Marlboro Theater Co. Tues.-Sun. at 8, mat. Sat. and Sun. at 3. $3, students...
Boycotts. The pressures on Heath are clearly rising. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson now believes that reunification of the two Irelands is inevitable. He has branded the Tory government's internment policy a blunder, and has called on the government either to bring to trial the 760 suspected subversives now under detention or to release them. "Internment," he charged, "has proved to be a recruiting sergeant for the I.R.A...