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...three Scots soldiers two weeks ago (TIME, March 22). Protestants reacted to the deaths with anti-government demonstrations. Chichester-Clark responded by flying to London to request additional troops and to ask that soldiers occupy Catholic neighbor hoods in Belfast and Londonderry to guarantee order. Prime Minister Edward Heath gave Chichester-Clark only 1,300 more men and refused to allow the army to take the kind of stern measures that might have appeased the Irish Prime Minister's right-wing critics...
...Britain's economic growth has stumbled to 1.5%. Unemployment is 3.1%, the highest since the war. Still, wage demands of 20% are frequent. Prime Minister Edward Heath is taking a tough stand against union wage demands, which he blames for the country's 7% inflation. His union policy and Britain's high discount rates have not yet brought a leveling in prices, but the average for wage gains appears to be receding slightly from last year's 14%. While Britain was still reeling from the Rolls-Royce crash, Vehicle & General Insurance Group, which insures every eighth...
Angry Silence. Deepening the malaise is what London's newspapers call the "angry silence" between the workingman and the Tory government. Few expect this week's scheduled meeting between Heath and Trades Union Congress Leader Victor Feather to start a real dialogue. Even if the seven-week strike of the 230,000-member Union of Post Office Workers ends this week as anticipated, by the end of April the number of working days lost in British industry may exceed the total of 10,970,000 for all of last year. That would be the worst record since...
Kill or Cure. The capitulation of the postal union's leadership is being hailed as a victory for Ted Heath's hard-line stand against inflationary wage demands. After Heath's apparent victory over the Electrical Trade Union workers in December, though, a board of inquiry subsequently gave the workers much more than they had expected. Britain's bobbies have just won a 16.5% wage hike -well above Heath's 10% limit. Now the nation's 230,000 railwaymen are pressing for a 15% to 25% increase, and London's 26,000 busmen...
There are those-the great bulk of conservatives, much of the middle class, some businessmen and the parliamentary majority-who still resolutely believe that Heath's kill-or-cure economic strategy is the right one: meet the unions head-on and allow a few mismanaged major companies to go under. Says one young Tory M.P. with typical sangfroid: "We knew it was going to get worse before it got better." While it is getting worse, more and more of the country is losing confidence in Heath's policies. Last month's Gallup poll indicated that Labor...