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...only 25,000 jobs in the company's own plants but perhaps 60,000 more in related industries. Workers are threatening to take over the plants if Chrysler goes home. A shutdown of the 7,000-worker factory in Lin wood, Scotland, might fan the flames of Scottish nationalism. And the Shah of Iran has ordered 126,000 Hunters in kit form; Wilson is not eager to anger one of Britain's principal suppliers of oil by letting Chrysler close without filling the order...
...change his dreary warehouse hob for the life of adventure his father chose long ago, broods like a trapped animal. Alternately raging at his mother and commenting sorrowfully on the action, O'Neill delivers an often powerful performance. He is especially effective in the latter role, although his Scottish brogue interferes mightily with his attempts at a southern accent...
Nowhere, though, has the North Sea's impact been more evident than on the political and social landscape. Scotland has turned into a tartan Texas-with an ego to match. Scotland wants the oil landing on its shores for itself, and the issue has reopened an old wound: Scottish nationalism...
...asset these days is not whisky but oil. From the Shetland Islands (noted for knitwear and shaggy ponies) in the north, to Peterhead, Edinburgh and Glasgow, oil is becoming Scotland's biggest industry. Already it is creating jobs, money and humor. One joke about the high pay of Scottish oil workers: "Did you hear that one of the welders married a commoner...
Local talk proclaims that the Scots like the Americans better than the English. That could possibly be all too true. Scottish nationalists are on the march, declaring in stickers everywhere: IT'S SCOTLAND'S OIL. The growing Scottish National party favors an independent Scotland, with its own Parliament and its own lucrative oil industry for the benefit of Scotland's 5 million people. At the very least, it wants more home rule, or "devolution." The "Scotnats" have shown erratic strength at the polls; most recently their candidate soundly defeated Labor and Conservative contenders in a regional election...