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...majority in Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with the congeries of Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, Liberals, Ulster Unionists and splinter M.P.s who hold the balance of power...
...late-an argument that masked Thatcher's aim of forcing elections now, while the Tories are 16 points ahead of Labor in opinion polls. Liberal M.P.s also raised questions. Translation: Liberal Party Leader David Steel wants a larger voice in government decisions for his 13-member delegation. Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, annoyed by Labor's fumble last month on a devolution bill that would grant regional assemblies for their areas, are itching to topple Callaghan...
...FIRST WORDS ever written about golf appear in an edict issued by the Scottish King James II, who was affectionately nicknamed "fiery face" by his subjects. This decree, passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1457, outlawed the playing of golf with the stern invocation that "the futeball and golfe be utterly cryed downe and not to be used." James was increasingly alarmed by the golf mania sweeping his realm, which was distracting able-bodied men from the archery practice required during wartime. "Fiery face" later met an untimely and befitting death when he was killed by a cannon that blew...
...time elapsed since golf's genesis in those Scottish hinterlands, Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin has been the game's greatest chronicler. Although Darwin is indisputably the best golf writer who ever lived, many also rate him the greatest sportswriter to set ink on paper, and that estimation takes into account such noteworthy members of the genus as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner...
...defeat leaves the Labor government severely hobbled. With the death of Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland and last week's loss of an additional seat in a by-election, it had already become a minority government. Scottish nationalists, who have generally voted with Labor during the past year, vowed to get revenge for what they felt was Labor's "betrayal." In fact, declared S.N.P. Leader Donald Stewart last week: "We shall seek to bring down the government at the first convenient moment...