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...Edward Heath in Paris...
...entrance of Britain into Europe's troubled suprapolitics. Just two days before the Paris meeting, the House of Lords was notified of Royal Assent to the treaty specifying the terms of British entry into the enlarged EEC-along with Denmark and Ireland-on Jan. 1. As Prime Minister Heath had put it: "In this new partnership we have a chance as a great people, as a formidable nation, as a shaper and molder of the modern world, to get back into action...
...some sympathy for the arriving Asians. Last week Amin called British High Commissioner Richard Slater into his office before live TV cameras and accused him of plotting against the Ugandan government; London angrily recalled its representative. Most Britons, according to a recent Harris poll, approve of Prime Minister Edward Heath's firm commitment to absorb the refugees...
Perhaps no European leader looks forward to the Paris summit with more enthusiasm than Britain's P.M. "One is either European or one is not," says Heath. "My home is on the coast, and any clear day when I look out, I see France." Domestically, Heath is in a fairly strong position at the moment despite Britain's continuing inflation and trade union opposition to his industrial-relations bill. He will be in even better shape if he manages to bring off a voluntary wage and price agreement that is currently being negotiated with the Confederation of British...
Like the Italians and the Irish, Heath favors a regional-development policy reinforced with EEC financial assistance to aid depressed industrial areas (such as Britain's Northeast, as well as the West of Ireland and the South of Italy). Like the Germans and Italians, he takes the position that economic policy must develop simultaneously with monetary policy. So far he has resisted French pressure to pin him down on exactly when the still floating pound sterling will be returned to a fixed parity. Heath is committed to such a step by January in any case; if he gets...