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What finally emerged was a plan that may merely delay a fateful showdown. For the next several months, an eight-member panel will study the recent increase in Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean, which Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath claims has made the sale of frigates and other military equipment to the Pretoria regime a strategic necessity...
...chill was noticeable. Angry Black African members have vowed that they will pull out of the Commonwealth if Britain's Conservative government goes through with its announced plan to resume arms sales to South Africa's white-supremacist regime. In reply, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath rose in Singapore's harbor-front Convention Hall and declared bluntly that no member had the right "to sit in final judgment of the policies and the actions" of another. Alarmed by the collision course between the mother country and her former African colonies, Singapore's Lee warned...
...Heath argues that the arms sales, cut off by the Labor government in 1964, are needed to protect British shipping and counterbalance the Soviets' growing influence in the Indian Ocean. His case was bolstered somewhat when two Soviet warships sailed within sight of the conference hall on their way to the Indian Ocean. Heath points out that South Africa (which resigned, under attack, from the Commonwealth in 1961) will be getting mostly frigates that could not be used to enforce internal repression; helicopters, however, would also be included...
Tories as well as Laborites have questioned Heath's perspective on the controversy. Lord Alport, a Conservative peer who handled Commonwealth relations under Harold Macmillan, recently called Heath's apparent determination to go ahead with the arms sale not only "politically unwise" but also "militarily irrelevant." Worse, it could prove counterproductive. By antagonizing black African governments, Heath might actually hasten the expansion of Soviet influence-not only in the Indian Ocean but on the African land mass as well. But Heath seemed determined to have his way and lost few chances to argue his side of the controversy...
Attractive Holdings. Heath does not plan to dismantle the state industrial machine completely. Operations that amount to public utilities-like gas, electricity and transportation-are not targets for denationalization, though the Tories will try to attract private investment to some companies in those fields. At present, nationalized firms must look to the government for roughly half their loan capital-a $1 billion-plus annual drain on the treasury. While a few state-owned industries, like gas, electricity and the airlines, occasionally turn a profit, most others are perennial losers. The Coal Board has piled up $34.5 million in deficits, despite...