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When Britain's Parliament adjourned for its summer recess at the end of last week, nobody would have been surprised to see its Conservative members run -not walk-to the exits. Prime Minister Edward Heath's fifth week in office had been marked by one bad break after another: a continuing dock strike, an untimely death in the Prime Minister's official family, a Commonwealth-wide uproar over the proposed sale of arms to South Africa, and the most serious act of violence in the hallowed House of Commons since Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot...
...Heath's supporters argued that in many respects the new Prime Minister was doing rather well. Northern Ireland was quieter, and last week the Ulster government banned all processions for six months, reducing the likelihood of renewed rioting. Maintaining his reputation as a superb administrator and delegator of authority, Heath cut his predecessor's swollen ministerial list, reducing the Cabinet from 21 to 18 and top non-Cabinet posts from 78 to 66. He also ordered a searching systems analysis of Whitehall's decision-making machinery, using top management experts recruited from private business. With care...
...thing that Britain's Conservatives did not manage to win in their stunning election upset last month was a reasonably long political honeymoon. Last week, less than a month after Prime Minister Edward Heath had moved his things into No. 10 Downing Street, he was coping with not one but two major crises...
...Trade Balance. Heath's government was less effective in Britain itself, where a collapse in labor negotiations closed the nation's 40 major ports as 47,000 dockworkers walked off their jobs in the first nationwide dock strike since the massive general strike of 1926. Rushing home from her ten-day visit to Canada, Queen Elizabeth II signed a state-of-emergency proclamation less than ten minutes after her arrival at Buckingham Palace. Armed with that authority, the new Tory government prepared to call out some 36,500 troops to move perishables, medicines and mail at deserted ports...
...setting than Suzy Knickerbocker's society column, where it appeared: that Washington Post Company President Kay Graham, 53, saw Britain's most eligible bachelor every night during a visit to London and even extended her stay a week. "Absolute nonsense," said a spokesman for Prime Minister Edward Heath, 54, and went on to add that Heath's own reaction ranged from "amusement" to "incredulity." Fact was, Kay flew over for the elections. The only time she and the Prime Minister got together was in the intimacy of a mass press conference...