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...into the thriving six-nation European Economic Community. Twice in the past ten years Britain's application has been rejected. This time there is a widespread conviction throughout Europe that a third failure would be the last. No one believes this more firmly than British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who led Britain's first unsuccessful attempt in the 1961-63 Brussels negotiations. "If we miss this opportunity, it will not be there for us to pick up in a year or two," Heath tells audiences...
...Heath's worry is partly one of timing. After several preliminary sessions, the crucial negotiations for British entry are now scheduled for mid-May in Brussels. If the six Market members (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany) do not agree in principle to British admission by July, Heath, who must face his party conference in October, is certain to run into a severe backlash in Britain. The Prime Minister and his Conservative Party remain committed to seeking EEC membership, but the British public is less enthusiastic. Food prices would rise 26% after entry, pushing...
...hardworking company (the actress who plays the hair-lipped Wilkes girl, in particular), but there also is too much undisciplined scuffling and shuffling about even to allow matters to proceed as smoothly as the dream-journey that some critics have suggested Huck's river voyage is. Scott R. Heath adopted notably individualized accents for his bit characters, but not when playing the Duke. Both he and David Keyser, as the Dauphin, were just too relentlessly histrionic and, for all the effort, produced no real characterizations...
After taking office last June, Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath promised to launch a "revolution so quiet and yet so total" that it would turn Britain once more into a competitive economic power. By easing the oppressive burden of taxation, he hoped to restore incentive to executives and galvanize workers out of the "I'm all right, Jack" mentality that has hobbled productivity for decades. Though he could hardly dismantle the Labor-built welfare state, he did begin to pare some of the benefits and increase the cost of social services...
...Heath really restore dynamism to Britain by giving the relatively well-to-do a bigger break than the relatively hardup? Theoretically, such an approach might be just what is needed. Politically, it might prove a bad gamble. Labor was quick to alert Britons to the implications of the cutbacks. "It is a budget for strengthening inequality," said ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson touched an even more sensitive nerve. He charged that Barber had created a "two-nations" budget, recalling Disraeli's famous label for the Britain of haves and havenots...