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Bloody Tuesday stiffened Parliament's resolve not to cave in to the terrorists. By a coincidence of the judicial calendar, the Northern Ireland High Court last week found against the British Army on a fine legal point concerning its security role in Ulster. On the same day, the Heath government rushed through a bill retroactively legitimizing everything the Army had done as keeper of the Ulster non-peace; the only dissenting voice was that of Bernadette Devlin...
...again last week. The country's striking coal miners (TIME, Feb. 28) overwhelmingly accepted the government's offer of a 21% pay hike and started returning to the pits. Despite the widespread public relief that the power crisis was over, darker days ahead for Prime Minister Edward Heath are predicted by Correspondent Honor Balfour, who has covered the British scene, including Parliament, for TIME since 1944. Her assessment...
...immediate aftermath of the miners' return to work, there is a positive effort by men and management in the mining industry to make a fresh start. In his prime ministerial broadcast at week's end, Mr. Heath did his best to reassert his government's authority and set a new trend toward his dedicated aim of Disraeli's "one nation." In the light of this slender ray, there are those who insist that "the British will pull through-we always do." But facts must be faced...
...Heath's government is confronted with a violent impasse in Ulster, impenetrable problems in Rhodesia, soaring inflation and nearly a million unemployed at home. The treasury announced last month that the pound sterling is worth only 51 pence compared with its value in 1953. The nation is still divided on the Common Market. The color problem is heightened by unemployment, housing and schooling conditions. There are more inflationary wage demands on the way, and more clashes between trade-union power and the government must be expected...
...face of the current threat, the Prime Minister's inflexibility must only serve to aggravate the workers (who look upon it as arrogance) and stiffen his supporters in their growing irritation with organized labor. Should Heath snap rather than bend-as did that other obstinate Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, in 1957-who would fill the vacuum? The Tory Party would never accept the fiery, rabble-rousing M.P. Enoch Powell. But his demagogy would exploit basic passions, for he personifies the fears, jealousies and hatreds of many British people to a frightening degree...