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...information furnished by Lyalin proved the last straw for Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government. Douglas-Home wrote to Gromyko last Dec. 3 and again on Aug. 4 to complain about the growing number of Soviet spies in Britain. The Russians never bothered to reply. In a particularly brazen gesture, the Soviets announced that they intended to send...
...trying to bribe an English businessman to sell military secrets. "It's not for me to say that one shouldn't spy," a top member of the Foreign Office told TIME last week, "but there are limits of decency even in that sort of activity." At a meeting of Heath, Douglas-Home, Defense Minister Lord Carrington and Home Secretary Reginald Maulding, the government decided on the mass expulsion...
...Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, who said he had had no food the day before. "I'd eat anything." he said, speaking with his mouth full. ··· After receiving the dedication of Magnum Opus for Organ from Composer Herbert Howells, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath reminisced to the Royal College of Organists about the days when he himself was a 15-year-old choirmaster and organist. Composer Howells, he said, "told me that if I was prepared to be as unpleasant as most of the great conductors, I should become one. I did not want anything...
Gromyko ignored the letter, as he had ignored a similar one sent eight months earlier. The British government, and particularly Prime Minister Heath, was furious at Gromyko's failure to reply. Last week the British went beyond polite requests. Using the best leverage at hand, the British Foreign Office declared: "The Soviet government can hardly fail to be conscious of the contradictions between their advocacy of a conference on European security and the scale of the operations against the security of this country." The statement went on to make it absolutely clear that unless Soviet officials stopped spying, Britain...
Major Concession. The agreement was still incomplete last week. Lord Goodman admitted that one point-he did not say which-was not settled. What had happened to bring the two sides even that close after five years of deadlock? For one thing, British Prime Minister Edward Heath has shown himself, by such gestures as selling military helicopters to South Africa last February, to be less concerned about Black African feelings than was his predecessor, Harold Wilson, and more willing to make a compromise settlement...