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During the late 1960s and early '70s, the copper stills of Scotland worked overtime to satisfy the fast-growing taste for the country's malt whisky. The industry grew to employ 25,000 workers, and Scotch ranked as Britain's fifth-biggest export. But after peaking in 1978 at sales of $2.5 billion, Scotch has gone on the rocks. In a report issued last week' Britain's National Economic Development Office stated that distillers are working at about 50% of capacity and that industry employment has fallen by about...
British unemployment still hovers at 12.5 percent with much higher rates in parts of Scotland and Wales. New industries have not stepped into replace old ones and areas of desolation abound, Perhaps Scargill would be less militant about pit closings if he felt assured that jobs at new mines could be found for those layed off, or that other sectors of the economy could absorb them without too much community disruption and disintegration...
Curiously, the she-soldiers seemed to have aroused the least disapproval in the male. The Calvinist Lady Ann Cunningham was a formidable warrior for Scotland, riding at the head of a troop of horses with a case of pistols attached to her saddle and daggers at her girdle. It was the "learned woman" that terrified both the learned and unlearned men around her. The prevailing opinion, according to the 17th century writer Hannah Woolley, found that a woman was "learned ... enough if she can distinguish her Husband's bed from another...
...fears and thus transform white nonvoters and Democrats into registered Republicans. In North Carolina (19% black electorate), says Elections Director Alex Brock, "Jesse Jackson began registration in the churches. But the Moral Majority picked up on it and may have surpassed him." In six months, G.O.P. registrations in rural Scotland County, N.C., increased from about 1,000 to almost 2,300. Lamarr Mooneyham, a Moral Majority official, says he has indeed been "fishing for conservatives in church waters." The white vote, however, is no solid bloc of fundamentalists, and some backlash seems possible. The Darden poll asked about a hypothetical...
...admission of Nelson as a Church of Scotland minister and candidate for full ordination has touched off a passionate and painful controversy throughout the nation. Over the past several months, hundreds of letters have filled the columns of Scottish newspapers, debating whether God's forgiveness means that even someone who has committed such an abhorrent crime should be allowed to serve in the church. "The Bible says there is great rejoicing in heaven over the recovery of a lost sheep," wrote one correspondent, "but there is no suggestion that the sheep was promoted to shepherd." Perturbed Scots have also...