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...like a destroyer heading full-steam towards the shore," said a close associate of Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath last week. "There's only so much sea room, and it's running out fast." Winter usually brings snarls to otherwise stiff British upper lips, but there is a mood of discontent and even despair in Britain today that is unlikely to disappear, as it normally does, with the first daffodils...
Both Harold Wilson's Laborites and Ted Heath's Tory leadership have condemned Powell, a former professor of Greek and former Health Minister; Heath removed Powell from the Tory shadow cabinet in 1968 following the "rivers of blood" speech. Both parties, however, have sought to alter their policies to reduce his impact. For instance, the new immigration bill's proposal that the government "assist" nonpatrials to go home was inspired by Powell's more bellicose call for "massive-albeit voluntary-repatriation." Accordingly, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling declared in Commons last week, when the bill was introduced...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...
...week's end, as Prime Minister lames Chichester-Clark flew to London to discuss the deteriorating situation with Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, Belfast was rapidly becoming one great anarchic slum. The "terrible beauty" that, in the words of Poet William Butler Yeats, characterized the 1916 Easter Rebellion has become in 1971 a terror without beauty...
...TriStar and follow Rolls into bankruptcy; in that case, the Pentagon would doubtless find some way to keep Lockheed producing C-5A cargo planes and Poseidon missiles. The issues are serious enough to have prompted at least one transatlantic telephone conversation between President Nixon and British Prime Minister Edward Heath...