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...bizarre campaign that Mintoff has been waging to gouge more money from Britain and other NATO countries that use Malta's superb naval and air facilities. With government indebtedness expected to reach a staggering $104 million by next spring, Malta is undeniably short of cash. Prime Minister Edward Heath offered to increase Britain's annual payments from $14 million to a generous $24 million, but Mintoff is holding out for $47 million...
There were, of course, others with prime roles on the world stage. Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, with whom Nixon met in Bermuda last week, scored a decisive and deserved victory in persuading the House of Commons to approve Britain's entry into Europe's Common Market in 1973. He thus ended an often bitter ten-year struggle, bringing a step closer Jean Monnet's grand vision of a united Europe. West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt won a Nobel Peace Prize for his continued efforts to reach a reconciliation between his nation and Eastern Europe and the Soviet...
...large night table on which is a pile of books: Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln, H.G. Wells' The Outline of History, Blake's Disraeli. On the bookshelf opposite his bed are the complete works of Winston Churchill bound in red and green leather. "Prime Minister Heath gave them to me when he was here last...
...level Ministry for Northern Ireland that would transfer security power from Stormont (the seat of the Northern Ireland government) to Westminster. The plan was categorically denied by the London government. Downing Street, however, allowed that a wide range of policy alternatives have been considered by British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who made a surprise one-day trip to Ulster. It was the first visit by a British Prime Minister since 1964, and was apparently designed as a morale boost for the 14,000 British troops there. "I have come to thank you," said Heath to soldiers on duty at fortified...
...birthday, in 1969, Germany's Grain Tycoon Alfred C. Toepfer created a "European Award for Statesmanship," to be presented to the statesman who did most for the cause of European unity. After years of search, the selection committee picked their first prizewinner: Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, "for his outstanding services to the entry of Britain to the European Community, to European unification, and the standing of Europe in the world...