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...absence of nearly four years to 10 Downing Street, the official home of British Prime Ministers.* The country's electoral drama, the most suspenseful in memory, had begun four days before when British voters failed to give either Wilson's Labor Party or Prime Minister Edward Heath's incumbent Tories a majority in Parliament. In a last-ditch effort to stay in power, Heath tried to lure the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) into a coalition government. But that proposal was essentially an exercise in wishful thinking on Heath's part. It quickly became clear...
...short while later, Heath, looking tired and drawn, drove to Buckingham Palace and tendered his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. Six minutes later, at 7:18 p.m., Harold Wilson arrived and, according to the palace bulletin, "accepted Her Majesty's offer" to form a new government. By the time the Wilsons arrived at Downing Street, Heath had packed his bachelor bags and gone to spend the night in a borrowed flat...
...they went. Even before he was sworn in, Wilson's new Employment Secretary, Michael Foot, summoned officials of the National Union of Mineworkers and the government's National Pay Board. In a marathon twelve-hour bargaining session, they managed to hammer out an agreement that had eluded Heath's government for five months...
While the $230 million wage package is more than twice the original government offer, the Tories can hardly complain. On the same day that he called the election, Heath ordered the Pay Board to study the miners' case and promised to abide by its recommendations. Last week the board proposed wage hikes of up to 30%-almost what the miners had demanded and within $2.3 million of the final settlement. The increases will raise miners' wages in the lowest category from $58.17 a week to $73.60 and in the highest bracket from...
...Callaghan, 61, an avuncular pragmatist who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary in earlier Wilson administrations. A firm Atlanticist and NATO supporter, Callaghan is skeptical about the Common Market but not hostile to it. In Middle East affairs, he will be less ardently Arabist than were Heath and Sir Alec Douglas-Home...