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...march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions. One-tenth of the country's labor force works for government enterprises, including railways, docks, airlines, bus lines, hotels, steel mills, electric plants, and telephone, trucking and container firms. Today, however, Edward Heath's Conservative government wants to sell off some of the Crown's more profitable but less strategic companies. From the opposition that is developing, it would appear that Heath was trying to pawn the Crown jewels...
Poor Virgin. Even so, Ted Heath's government has announced a policy of state "disengagement" from industry. Hoping to stimulate free enterprise and cut back on public expenditure, Heath intends to sell some state operations to private companies and seek partnerships with private investors in others. His campaign became apparent in November when he fired Viscount Hall, chairman of the Post Office Corporation. Hall was opposed to attempts to tinker with his 500,000-man empire, especially its enterprising nonpostal activities: computer sharing, a savings bank and a personal-loan service. A former Labor member of Parliament, Hall called...
...Indian Ocean also worry Australia and Great Britain. In light of the Tory government's decision to retain a token military force to help defend Singapore and Malaysia, there is uneasiness in London about supplying that force via a body of water dominated by the Russians. Heath has argued for resuming South African arms sales on the ground that the Soviets' Indian Ocean presence makes the Simons-town naval base more important than ever; but the plan has run into such opposition from black African Commonwealth members, and Canada too, that the decision has been postponed...
...London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared, the waxwork freaks voted Hitler and Mao Tse-tung one and two. President Nixon ranked fourth. Three tied for fifth place-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Dracula and Vice President Spiro Agnew...
Fresh from his Washington get-together with President Nixon, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath caromed back to his home town of Broadstairs, Kent, whipped up a practiced baton and led the choir through its annual Christmas carol concert. The P.M. knows at least as much about conducting a choir as conducting a parliamentary majority; this is the 27th year he has presided over the caroling, and only his first at No. 10 Downing Street. "An improvement, on the whole," he said of the choristers. "Must be something to do with the change in climate." It was obvious that...