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...Unemployment, at 2.5% as of last week, is the highest for any May since 1940. In addition, there was the prospect that renewed troubles this summer in Northern Ireland would embarrass Wilson. Until Wilson's Home Secretary, James Callaghan, last week pressured South Africa's all-white Sprinkbok cricket team into canceling its scheduled visit, there was also the likelihood of anti-apartheid protests from British liberals, which might have stirred up a pro-Tory "law-and-order" vote...
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