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...short world that is turning colder, anxious men generated their own kinds of heat last week. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic imposed tough new constraints on industry and citizens. Britain prepared to go on a three-day work week and took other measures that Prime Minister Edward Heath said would give the nation "a harder Christmas than we have known since the war" (see THE WORLD). In the U.S., airlines drafted plans to drop a fifth of their flights next month, and a series of protests against the fuel cutbacks-by pilots, truck drivers, gas-station owners -gave...
...Britain, this will be a Christmas of extraordinary hardship. The country is staggering under a savage double blow: the oil shortage and widespread labor disruptions. Together, the two crises have left the nation desperately short of fuel for homes and industry. To combat the problem, Prime Minister Edward Heath last week ordered stern restrictions on fuel use and asked Britons to make their greatest belt-tightening sacrifices since World...
...Heath's conservation measures...
...Ulster was the first trial by fire for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, Britain 's economic crisis has now clearly become the second. A perennial cold-weather cycle of labor un rest, coupled with a diminished flow of oil from the Middle East, threatens Brit ons with their most difficult winter in years. It also threatens to destroy Heath 's anti-inflationary plans for ushering Brit ain into a new era of smooth expansion...
Last week Heath named William Whitelaw, Britain 's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 1972, his new Secretary of Employment. It was a popular and promising choice. Whitelaw had been directly responsible for taking Ulster from the edge of civil war to an entirely new form of government in which Catholics as well as Protestants truly share power. A few days after the appointment, representatives from Britain, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland sat down for their first, historic talks on a Council of Ireland. But the robust figure who made it possible was absent: Wil liam Whitelaw...