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...Irish Republic's Prime Minister John Lynch warned the British government that, unless it stopped trying to achieve a "military solution," he would back the passive-resistance policy of Northern Ireland's Catholics. Retorted British Prime Minister Edward Heath: "Your telegram is unjustified in its content, unacceptable in its attempt to interfere in the affairs of the United Kingdom," and calculated "to do the maximum damage to the cooperation between the communities in Northern Ireland...
...days earlier, already under pressure to smash the I.R.A., Faulkner had flown to London for a secret meeting with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Faulkner and Heath agreed to invoke the special powers of preventive detention-i.e., imprisonment without trial-for suspected subversives. Heath attempted to divert suspicion of impending emergency action by going back to his yachting immediately. A few days later he led Britain to victory in the internationally contested Admiral's Cup races...
...labor agreed to stretch the bargaining for 24 hours past Saturday midnight, the time set for a walkout. United Steel Workers President I.W. Abel, chief labor negotiator in the contract talks involving 350,000 workers, announced the extension and then headed back for another night of talks with R. Heath Larry, who heads the management team for nine big steelmakers. And the nation continued to face the prospect of either a shutdown in steel or another inflationary settlement...
...answer came last week. In a long speech to Commons, Wilson declared that the terms agreed upon by Heath's Tory negotiators in Luxembourg in June for Britain's entry into the Common Market were unacceptable...
Much like the U.S., Britain is struggling with what the English call "stagflation": a stagnant economy accompanied by unacceptable rates of unemployment and inflation. Prime Minister Heath's Conservative government had hoped that the economy would recover without major government intervention. Last week, with the slump continuing, the Tories abruptly and courageously switched policies...