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...story Georgian-style office building on London's Smith Square, Prime Minister Edward Heath strode into Tory Party headquarters to sound the keynote for his campaign for reelection. "It is essential to have a strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed...
...fact that they are planning a scare campaign on a "Reds under the bed" ticket, blaming assorted Marxists, militants, Trotskyites and "unpatriotic" union leaders for the country's troubles. Their campaign slogan is "Who Gov erns Britain?"-a hard-lining appeal to the voters to choose between Heath's tough stance and the striking workers. Heath, 57, will also exploit past successes like his handling of Northern Ireland, which resulted in a marked reduction of tensions there, and his early decision to go all out in the potentially highly profitable development of North...
When election talk first surfaced last month, Heath deferred his decision for another go-round at a settlement with the miners-and with good reason. British voters are about evenly divided between the country's two major parties, and there was no certainty that Heath's Tories could pull off a victory. The latest Gallup poll last week in fact gave Labor 42%% of the vote to the Tories 39%%. That was a reversal of January's poll, when the Tories led Labor by 40% to 38%. Said the Opinion Research Center's Chairman T.F. Thompson...
Much of that voter uncertainty stems from Heath's inability to solve the three-month-old miners' dispute. From the first, the government's handling of the negotiations with the miners was inept-and last week was no different. After the miners voted overwhelmingly (81%) to strike, -Heath met with the Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million workers, including the miners, to attempt to resolve the crisis. He promised that if the miners settled, he would appoint a royal commission to hear their grievances. In all likelihood, he added, the commission would recommend an increase...
...cooperative with more promise than polish. Its rules are truly democratic: all decisions about repertory and casting are made by vote. Butto keep chaos from the door -the director of each production has the usual artistic control. That divided authority may explain the unevenness of the fare. The blasted heath of King Lear would seem to be a British company's natural territory; instead, Shakespeare provides their weakest evening. In Chekhov's Russia, on the other hand, they are at home and even offer some accommodation to R.D. Laing'spsychic tangles...