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...Slap Flap...
...your article "The Great Slap Flap" [Dec. 3]: I am disgusted and angered by the press and its apparent personal feud with President Nixon. What gall TIME has to say that the White House attempt to use this story to discredit press criticism seems heavyhanded to most newsmen...
Edward Heath's Conservative government is disliked by the miners. Says Joe Wheelan, an officer at the National Union of Mineworkers in Mansfield, a mining town near Nottingham: "Heath has love and a kiss on the cheek for the oil sheiks, but he has a slap in the face for the British miner." Adds a miner's wife: "Brother Heath's making it seem that if the miners lift their ban, then petrol rationing will be unnecessary. I just can't believe that. We're being used as scapegoats. The only thing he hasn...
...when he doesn't get promoted," he says. "But that is better than finding that his life is ruined because he can't do anything." Furthermore, he adds, "You can't promote him simply on the theory that he is too old to keep back. To slap him into a junior high school compounds his chances of failure...
Some analysts interpreted the vote as a slap at Labor's attempt to transform conservative Australia into a welfare state, plus a protest against inflation, which has more than doubled in the year that Whitlam has been Prime Minister. The independent Melbourne Age offered an even gloomier interpretation. It saw an "ominous precedent" in the vote, noting that the last time a Labor government had ruled the country, its ouster (in 1949) was preceded by a similar rejection of a referendum over the issue of federal control of prices...