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...heroes-five dock workers who had been briefly jailed for illegal picketing practices -were the focus of what suddenly exploded last week into the most sullen and emotional confrontations between British labor and British government since Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath came to power two years ago. By midweek, when the Pentonville Five were released on a convenient legal technicality, upwards of 170,000 British workers had left their jobs in sympathy strikes that slowed or shut down mines and steel mills, virtually closed London's Heathrow airport, stopped most of London's busses and for five full...
...halls of State Fair Park surrounding the Cotton Bowl. Not all the groups who had booths were of the straight, nonpolitical type characteristic of Campus Crusade. One called the People's Christian Coalition was more radical in its approach to the Gospel, and caused a ruckus at a midweek meeting when some of its members joined with Mennonites to hold up a CHRIST OR COUNTRY banner and chant "Stop the war." They reflected a feeling among a minority of evangelicals at the conference that Bright's brand of Christianity is lacking in social concern...
...fight against the North Vietnamese. To emphasize that it was "their war," it was decided that reporters' inquiries about the South Vietnamese situation would be bucked to the State Department. The President demonstrated his confidence that the situation was under control by leaving for Key Biscayne in midweek...
...eastern provinces, 10,000 ARVN troops were cautiously probing the sanctuaries where elements of three North Vietnamese divisions are believed to be waiting for the signal to open their long-awaited dry-season offensive in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist units deeper inside Cambodia opened their own offensive. In midweek, a force of Communist artillerymen, perhaps no more than 200 strong, struck the capital with a devastating, 90-minute rocket and mortar barrage...
...weaken, the official attitude began to change. Two weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns told other central bankers that the board would let U.S. short-term interest rates rise-a move that should help stanch the flow of dollars abroad in search of a higher return. Then, at midweek, Connally declared in Manhattan that he was dispatching Treasury Under Secretary Paul Volcker to confer with foreign officials about first steps toward long-run monetary reform...