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...article appeared last May in London's Time Out, a trendy counterculture weekly, and the British government was apparently not amused. Last month Scotland Yard arrested two Time Out reporters, Crispin Aubrey, 31, and Duncan Campbell, 24, as well as a former British army signal corpsman, John Berry, 33, for violating the 66-year-old Official Secrets Act. The arrests might have drawn only the usual left-wing cries of protest if the government had not two weeks earlier completed deportation hearings against another journalist, American-born Mark Hosenball, 25, a former Time Out reporter now on the staff...
First he took us round the quite beautiful Entebbe Botanical Gardens, lush with great trees and sited magnificently on the biggest fresh-water lake in Africa, Lake Victoria, by itself almost as big as Scotland. He talked to us about his plans to develop old colonial buildings there. Then he drove us over the golf course, right across the seventh green. It was not just the President's car crossing the sacrosanct turf but Mr. Bob's as well, in close attendance behind. Plainly the President is not a golfer. But he pointed out to us the spot...
...both sides of the floor. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor government ran into just that kind of resistance when House Leader Michael Foot tried to ram through a guillotine vote to restrict debate on the devolution bill, which would give limited home rule to Scotland and Wales. Furious, 22 rebellious Labor M.P.s joined the opposition long enough to blunt the guillotine motion by 312 to 283, a stunning 29-vote margin; 15 other Laborites abstained...
...government defeat was the climax to a long and somewhat cynical campaign by Laborites and Tories alike to check the growing influence of nationalist sentiment in Scotland. Building on Scots' resentment at being treated like country cousins by Westminster -and fueled by the development of North Sea oil off Scotland's coast-the independence-minded Scottish National Party in the past six years has become second only to Labor as the most powerful party in Scotland. With many of Labor's traditionally safe seats in danger during the 1974 election campaigns, worried leaders came up with...
Devolution Scheme. The trouble was that while Labor had thought up the devolution scheme to keep Scotland part of the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party shrewdly endorsed the measure as the first step toward total sovereignty. The S.N.P. endorsement troubled backbenchers on both sides of Parliament. Political leaders in economically deprived English regions began to talk of local assemblies of their own. Liberal M.P.s wondered whether a federal system for the entire U.K. might be a sensible idea. Furthermore, as parliamentary debate on the government's bill opened, the original devolution question became mired in a muddy loch...