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Callaghan is also being helped by an embarrassing internal feud within the Conservative Party. Former Prime Minister Edward Heath, whom Thatcher deposed as party leader three years ago, broke with party policy by openly sup porting Callaghan's wage stand, even as he campaigned for the Tory candidate in the Scottish by-election. Conservative M.P. George Gardiner, a Thatcher brain-truster, last week complained that "receiving support from Ted Heath is like being measured by an undertaker." A Labor Party spokesman had a quick retort: "Perhaps the result means that rank-and-file Conservatives prefer their former leader...
...home, the Carter plan had some early supporters. Said Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "The time has come for us to join the President in attacking the problem?and stop attacking each other." Claimed a spokesman for Otto Eckstein's Data Resources, Inc., a highly respected economic think tank in Lexington, Mass.: "The President has taken as tough an approach to wage-price standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main...
...Heath's new Tory government, which came to power in 1970, seems to have wanted to know as little as possible about the matter. Lord Home, Foreign Secretary under Heath, explains a bit lamely that the oil sanction issue "was never discussed." The Tories' see-no-evil, hear-no-evil policy apparently helped prompt the oil companies to drop the oil-swapping sham and return to direct shipments through Lourenço Marques. Not until a newly independent Mozambican government closed that door in 1976 did the trade stop. Today Rhodesia gets its oil directly from South Africa's supplies...
...Edward Heath, former British Prime Minister and now a conductor of the European Community Youth Orchestra, when asked to compare his two careers: "At least the conductor and the orchestra are trying to reach the same destination, which isn't always the case in politics...
Britain has no written constitution?simply a collection of precedents embodied in acts of Parliament and historic understandings that have grown out of political crises and conflicts over the centuries. In the accepted framework of British politics, Heath had no choice but to accept his sovereign's verdict. The Queen, for her part, could not have spoken out publicly; she would have seemed to be usurping the power of Parliament. There is a built-in fiction to the British system: namely, the Cabinet is no more than the servant of the Crown. The reverse is closer to the truth...