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HAROLD WILSON's Labor Party is British Prime Minister Edward Heath's opponent in this month's parliamentary election in name only. Heath's real opponents are the militant coal miners who have staunchly refused to let Heath get away without paying them a decent wage for their dangerous and difficult work...
...miners went out on strike last Sunday long after it became clear that Heath would not come close to meeting their demands for a 28-per-cent wage increase. Before going on strike the miners pressed their demands by refusing to work overtime. That job action reduced production in the nationalized coal industry by nearly 40 per cent, throwing an already faltering economy even further out of whack. Heath's enactment of a three-day work week was more a reaction to the miners' slowdown than to anything else...
When the British economy entered into its present difficulties, Heath found himself in dire political straits. Once the miners announced their intention to strike, he had no choice but to dissolve parliament and call for new elections--the first in Britain since 1970. What with oil shortages, I.R.A. terror bombings in London and the reduced coal production, Britons had a pretty dreary Christmas this year. Heath tried to inspire the electorate with speeches reminiscent of Churchill's inflated World War II rhetoric, but only with the barest success. The coal miners's strike now threatens England with a depression unparalleled...
...moved the London tabloid, the Sun, to run a photo of a buxom model and her husband baring almost all in watery togetherness. It also inspired a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Edward Heath in a bath telling his butler: "Save gas or not, Perkins, I will not share a bath with Mick McGahey" (Communist official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called...
...most of their energies to tinkering with domestic affairs to remain in power-and do even that badly. Every major leader is beset by crises. Some, like France's Georges Pompidou and West Germany's Willy Brandt, seem tired and bored; others, like Britain's Edward Heath, are fighting for their political lives. All of them are, essentially, afraid to make decisions that would promote the cause of Europe for fear that they might cause momentary domestic complications. As a result, governments indulge in a depressing litany of mutual recrimination and petty squabbles. The British are sniping...