Word: primed
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Dayan may carry back to Israel an urgent invitation for Prime Minister Begin to visit Carter in Washington. Begin is scheduled to visit the U.S. next at the end of April for ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of Israel's independence. But after their experience of Sadat's depression and changeability, some insiders doubted that Carter would want to wait that long. Said one: "The President wants Begin here as soon as possible to get things unstuck before what's left goes poof...
...Downing Street: the economy and political mood of Britain underwent a sea change. Less than a year ago the Tories were running 21% ahead of Labor in the polls, and Conservative Leader Thatcher was the odds-on favorite to become her country's first woman Prime Minister. Now the two parties are in a dead heat, and Prime Minister James Callaghan is more popular than his party while Thatcher lags behind hers...
...Tories have also raised the possibility of changing laws that give instant voting rights to Irish immigrants. Labor M.P.s from industrialized areas admitted that the anti-Irish swipes would go down well in the British Midlands. "Margaret is desperate," protested a Labor Cabinet Minister. "She wants to be Prime Minister -by any means...
...Callaghan has plenty to fight back with. Last week the Prime Minister reaped a substantial political bonanza with some favorable economic news. Britain's mine workers agreed to go along with the government's 10% limit on wage increases; the pound, already surging, rose another half a cent; and key Labor economists projected a drop in the inflation rate (13% in November) to 7% by July. One pollster believes that the party may also pick up a large block of new votes in the next election from the traditionally apolitical Asian immigrants. His prediction: "They are going...
...simultaneously exploited (by both their employers and their unions) and ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director and co-writer of this new project...