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...real possibility after a bizarre session of Commons last week at which Labor whips ordered their members to abstain from voting on a Labor-proposed motion-which led to a resounding 293-to-0 defeat for the government. Following that odd display of parliamentary tactics, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher demanded a vote of no confidence, which will be taken at midweek. If the government loses, Callaghan will have no choice but to ask the Queen to dissolve the House and call for new elections within weeks...
Stormy Campaign. After serving as a gunnery officer in the Navy during World War II, Vance joined the prestigious New York City law firm of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett. His professional life changed course in 1957 when he became special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance caught the appraising eye of the chairman-L.B.J. In 1961 John F. Kennedy made him general counsel of the Department of Defense. There Secretary Robert S. McNamara soon put his talents to work in his stormy campaign to bring more efficiency to the Pentagon...
...candidates in the general election two years ago switched to the opposition Tories, who picked up two of the seats. The government now commands only 316 votes in the 635-seat House-312 Labor M.P.s and four consistent supporters-and has lost its working majority. Exulted Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher: "Dry rot has set into the government house, and you know just how quickly dry rot runs through a whole building...
More pertinent, perhaps, is the fact that a new poll out last week gives the Tories a 14.8% lead over the Laborites -more than double what it was a month ago. With that figure to encourage her, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher is aiming at leading Britain's next government rather than playing second fiddle in a Callaghan-led coalition...
...been enough. A notoriously unorthodox administrator, Foot has been a Cabinet minister only since 1974 and has never held any of the top portfolios normally considered essential background for No. 10. Beyond that, Foot was thought to be especially vulnerable in a general election campaign against Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher. In one Sunday Times poll, only 7% of the Labor voters named Foot as their first choice to be Prime Minister; 33% found him "not acceptable." Callaghan, on the other hand, was the first choice...