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Breaking Point. The powerful Trades Union Congress last week offered to make assurances that if a "special case" settlement were worked out with the miners, other unions would not use it to hike their own demands. Reversing a previous rejection, Heath met with the union leaders for two hours. "Our proposal was received with interest," reported the T.U.C.'s Sir Sidney Greene. But aides said that Heath was doubtful the unions could be kept in line, making such an agreement unlikely...
Actually, Heath's position stiffened last week. The Prime Minister declared that the government would tough it out on a three-day week until spring if necessary. But business leaders pointed out that the British economy would reach the breaking point before then. "After the next two weeks," said Reginald Dixon of the Confederation of British Industry, "there will be a general severe deterioration...
...Raymond Brookes, chairman of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd. engineering group, is one of a growing number of industrial leaders who feel that the time has come for Heath to settle with the miners: "I've been down three coal mines in my life, and each time I've said, 'If I had to work there, I'd want paying to go to work and paying again when I'd done it.' " If opposition within Heath's own party continues to grow, he may find himself fighting not just the miners...
...have enough troubles at home, Heath was also smarting from critical news stories appearing in foreign countries, particularly the U.S. "We aren't in a state of continual crisis," he declared in an interview with the New York Times. "I know anybody reading the American press will think this was the case because this is all that has been reported for the past few weeks. They have shown no interest in Britain for months and years, ever since the war. Now all they do is describe Britain as being in a state of decay and one of perpetual crisis...
...Foreign Ministry. The German press has acclaimed him for his refreshing informality, while European fans beknighted him the "Meistersinger Minister." Who knows? If Scheel could get together with West Europe's other leaders, even the factions in the Common Market might stay in tune. Scheel could sing, Edward Heath could pound the piano, and Georges Pompidou might even learn to tootle an obbligato on the French horn...