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...Italians are also primarily concerned about economic objectives. What they want most is a program for assisting underdeveloped regions within Europe's own borders -notably Italy's own impoverished South. The question of such aid was a prime topic between Italian leaders and British Prime Minister Edward Heath during his visit to Rome two weeks...
...rate this year, inflation is a major reason that support for the Conservative government has dipped to a new low for the year in the polls (39% of the people say that they support the Tories, while 50% are for Labor). Last week Prime Minister Edward Heath proposed a voluntary $4.84-a-week pay-raise limit for all British workers for at least a year; he also asked for a 4% ceiling on price increases for manufactured goods. The proposals have yet to be approved by unenthusiastic unions and businessmen...
...high as 650,000. The decision has already raised the level of domestic racial tension. A crowd of angry protesters swarmed on Whitehall two weeks ago, chanting "Keep Britain white!" and "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate!" Prime Minister Edward Heath courageously insisted that Britain would live up to its obligations, but he plainly hoped that other countries could be persuaded to take a few of the Asians off Britain's hands. So far, only Canada has volunteered to help, agreeing to take about 5,000 of the displaced Asians...
Defiance. Since Heath's upset election in 1970, Britain has been pummeled by long strikes by dockers, electrical workers, postal and communications workers and coal miners, who forced large swatches of the country to do without heat or power for the better part of a rugged month last winter. Even before the dockers walked out again two weeks ago, Britain had already had enough strikes, wildcat walkouts, shutdowns, sitouts and other assorted stoppages to make 1972 the worst labor year since the great General Strike...
...frequently ignored), on the country's entry into the Common Market (which is feared) and on the political system (which is deeply distrusted). The burst of labor outrage that followed the recent jailing of the "Pentonville Five" dockers on contempt-of-court charges was primarily aimed at Ted Heath's Tories, but the opposition Labor Party has not been immune. "As for the House of Commons," Bernie Holland, a porter at London's Covent Garden market, jeered last week, "in that club the Labor M.P.s are always getting up and apologizing for these unruly workers...