Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Heath became Prime Minister when Labor was upset in the 1970 election, and Thatcher was soon named Secretary of State for Education and Science, where she gained a reputation for toughness. While demanding more money for her department, she cut out free milk for elementary school children, thus earning the cruel sobriquet "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher." Heath had agreed to her appointment only because he felt it was good politics to have a woman in the Cabinet. "The chemistry between them was not good," recalls a Cabinet colleague...
...After Labor twice defeated the Tories in the 1974 elections, Heath's leadership came under sharp attack, especially from his party's right wing. The two leading rightist candidates, Sir Keith Joseph and Edward Du Cann, declined to run for the leadership, while Heath could not make up his mind whether to fight or resign. Backed by Joseph, Norman St. John-Stevas, a Tory intellectual, and Airey Neave, who became her campaign manager and one of her closest advisers,?Thatcher stepped boldly into the arena. At a party caucus on Feb. 11, 1975, she defeated the acknowledged favorite, William...
...Last Parliament: Labor 307, Conservatives 282, Liberals 14, others 29. New Parliament: Conservatives 339, Labor 268, Liberals 11, others...
South Africa last week announced a set of proposals for improving the rights of at least some of the country's 7.5 million black workers. Among the provisions: permitting most black workers to join officially recognized labor unions; encouraging employers to pay black and white employees the same wages; integrating company cafeterias and washrooms; doing away with the practice of reserving certain categories of jobs for whites only...
...proposals, which must be debated in the all-white South African Parliament but are almost certain to become public policy, are the product of a government-appointed commission on labor reform headed by Nicholas Wiehahn, a labor law expert who once worked on the railways as an apprentice stoker-a job that has always been reserved for whites. The government hopes the proposals will be seen as evidence that South Africa is pushing its labor practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan...