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...Tory M.P.s trickled into Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons last week to vote on the leadership of their party, former Prime Minister Edward Heath had every reason to feel confident that he would be reelected. After all, the polls showed that he was the first choice of 63% of all Tory supporters; he had been endorsed by virtually every member of the Conservatives' shadow Cabinet, as well as by hundreds of local Tory associations across Britain. But the results of the secret ballot were a shock: maverick M.P. Margaret Thatcher (see box) received 130 votes...
...been a great privilege to serve my party as its leader and my country as its Prime Minister," said Heath as he stepped down as Tory chief. "I should like to thank all those who through the years, in hard times as well as good, have given me their support and friendship...
...some political observers, the real surprise was not that Heath went down to defeat but that he had stayed in command of the party as long as he had. His general-election record was poor (one win and three losses to Harold Wilson's Labor!tes). He also had a largely well-deserved reputation for refusing to take anyone's counsel but his own, as well as an unendearing public image as a prickly, self-righteous schoolmaster. Paradoxically, some of the handicaps that led to his downfall had helped keep him in power. After ten years of Heath...
...running as Men of the Year. Governments changed with what seemed a manic rapidity. Israel's Golda Meir left office, replaced by Yitzhak Rabin. Japan's Kakuei Tanaka resigned amid scandal, with Takeo Miki succeeding him. Western Europe seemed beset by Fraktionspolitik. Great Britain deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost...
Under the new system, graduate students will pay full tuition for their first two years, a reduced tuition of $1000 per year for years three and four, then a set facility fee--for Harvard libraries and heath care--of between $350 and $400 per year...