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...Murray was the third Briton injured in a rash of letter bombs and incendiary devices that have plagued Britain for the past two weeks. Police believe that the bombs, which have been discovered at department stores, embassies, Parliament and Prime Minister Edward Heath's official residence at No. 10 Downing Street, are part of a new terrorist campaign by sympathizers of the Irish Republican Army. The I.R.A., which often boasts of its assassinations and other successful acts of violence, has made no official comment on the bombing, although individual spokesmen so far deny any responsibility...
...realized. First a rash of 17 mini-bombs sowed confusion across the swank West End. Only six exploded, none doing serious damage. One that was detected and defused turned up at No. 10 Downing Street inside a book on Composer Gustav Mahler mailed anonymously to Prime Minister Edward Heath, a Mahler devotee...
...that all the talk was civil. Britain, which sort of made the whole club possible by at one time ruling virtually all the other members, came in for some buffeting. Uganda called Britain a hotbed of racism. British Prime Minister Edward Heath suggested that if anybody was racist, it was Uganda's President Idi Amin. He accused Amin of "callous inhumanity" in his expulsion of 50,000 Asians. (Amin was not present; he had stayed home, perhaps mindful of how he had deposed Milton Obote while Obote was at the Singapore conference...
Curiously, Australia's new Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam seemed to rile Heath more by warning the underdeveloped Commonwealth countries to beware of multinational corporations. Heath retorted that if Whitlam had problems with such corporations in Australia, he should enact antitrust laws. "That would ensure competition," the British Conservative leader said. "But," he added, cuttingly, "that is not something socialist prime ministers like to hear...
Clearly, the Liberal victories constituted a significant upset to Prime Minister Edward Heath and his government, whose parliamentary majority is now down to 15. As in the other by-election losses, the Tories seemed to be hurt most by Britain's floundering economy and spiraling inflation. But the by-elections were equally a setback to Labor Leader Harold Wilson and his party. Labor not only failed to pick up dissatisfied Tory supporters, it even lost some of its own. Labor's problem, it appears, is that the party is so racked by internal squabbling and irresolute leadership that...