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What Callaghan meant was that Britain feels cheated by the terms of entry negotiated by the former Conservative government of Edward Heath. By 1980, the Foreign Secretary contended, Britain will be paying about 24% of the Common Market's budget according to the present schedule of assessments, even though its gross domestic product will be only 14% of the Community's total...
Even before last week's surprises (see following stories), the West seemed to have become a kind of political basket case. In Britain, Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson's minority government clings tenuously to power 2½ months after a bitter, standoff election that top pled Edward Heath's Tories but seemed to show mainly that the voters have little confidence in either majority party. In Italy, no one seems to care very much whether Premier Mariano Rumor's two-month-old center-left regime, which is the 36th government the country has had since...
BRITAIN changed governments in March largely because Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath failed miserably to redeem his 1970 campaign promise that he would "cut prices at a stroke." Heath had some success with wage-price controls, but in 1972 his government embarked upon...
...well-fear that the base will increase big-power rivalries in the region. Last week Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam joined the chorus of critics, saying that he would try to persuade Britain's Labor government to abrogate the agreement made by former Prime Minister Edward Heath. So far, Harold Wilson's new government has said only that the plan, like all foreign policy issues, was under "review...
...increases. He also faces potential union unrest. There is the danger that the hefty wage boost he granted to the coal miners (up to 30% in some cases) will embolden other workers when their contracts expire this year. This could land Wilson in the same dilemma that led to Heath's recent electoral defeat: a battle with the unions to restrain wage demands in order to hold back inflation...