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White, who returned to London last year after 27 years of TIME assignments in half a dozen capitals, found that British campaigns had hardly changed since he covered them for the Associated Press. White was with Foreign Secretary David Owen when that Labor candidate for a parliamentary seat in Plymouth, Devon, pumped constituents' hands on the historic quay where, on Sept. 6, 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World. Owen, reports White, drew fewer bystanders than did the nearby Mayflower memorial plaque. "After all," says White, "it's the tourist season here...
...Astronomical Perspective," Owen J. Gingerich (full course...
...frosty response from the Thatcher administration. Gone will be the cosy rapport Carter shared with Jim Callaghan, who was very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...
Armed with campaign leaflets and a smile, Owen calls at one house and is greeted by Arthur Bannister, 70, a retired laborer. "Three cheers!" cries Bannister, a lifelong Labor Party man. "You're in. I back Labor and I'll never budge." Encouraged, Owen crosses the street and this time runs into a fervent working-class Tory. Robert Mason, 78, a retired stained-glass cutter, is ill with bronchitis, and Owen goes to his bedside. "You'd do better to go back to doctoring," Mason says. "I don't think Callaghan is any good for the country...
...dockside area, Owen is surrounded by fishermen who protest the expansion of a public toilet on the quay because it will rob the loading area of space. Owen promises to look into it, knowing full well that he is not gaining much ground with the men, most of whom normally vote Conservative. Still, he professes confidence. "As the campaign goes on," he insists, "more people will distrust the Tory line. We are closing...