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...better education than most members of the street gang he hangs around with in the riot-scarred Liverpool slum of Toxteth. He has three years' experience as a galley boy on merchant vessels and, most important, a declared willingness to work hard. What Steve McGurty, 21, does not have, and is not likely to get, is a job. The merchant marine will not take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect...
...Although unemployment has more than doubled from 5.4% when she took office in May 1979 to 12.4% last month, Thatcher adamantly believes a decline in the inflation rate, now 11.5% annually, is a precondition to economic growth. "I did not promise a quick answer," she told Parliament during the Liverpool riots. She is fighting to hold average-wage increases to 4% for the country's 7 million public sector employees (civil servants, the military, and workers in state-owned enterprises like British Steel...
...international fame. "We all felt in some peculiar way that the Beatles represented us," he says, adding that when he and some friends visited the United States in the early sixties, "everyone kept asking us 'do you know the Beatles?' because we were from England. So we all adopted Liverpool accents and said 'sure...
...money and cutbacks in government spending. Even when the unemployment rate for young Britons rose to 34% and the demand for jobs became one of the causes of the riots in the major cities, she insisted that she would not compromise. But last week, as mobs still rioted in Liverpool on the eve of the royal wedding, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abruptly turned away from a key phase of Thatcherism. She went before the House of Commons to announce a $1.3 billion program aimed at providing more jobs and educational opportunities for the nation's 900,000 unemployed youths...
Thus Britain's economic troubles, which except in moments of flare-up are usually buried in the financial pages, got an unexpected, and perhaps unwelcome, amount of prime-tune attention. To the camera's undiscriminating eye, action is action-and cars set afire by rioters in Liverpool (a sight beloved by television cameramen everywhere) vied on equal visual terms with royal fireworks in London; it was reminiscent of the way television juxtaposed street riots with the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. On CBS, Dan Rather gave an unusually downbeat report on Britain's social unrest, high unemployment...