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...ride. When fully developed in the late '70s, the creation is expected to thunder along at speeds up to 350 m.p.h. while flying only 25 to 50 feet above the water-low enough to make radar detection difficult. What is more, the huge aircraft could make two-to three-day voyages extending as far as 7,000 miles...
...stakes in the government-labor standoff have gradually risen on both sides. For Heath, determined to preserve his anti-inflationary wage guidelines against the miners' demands for what the government claims is a 30% pay boost, it has meant a series of unpopular emergency measures, including a compulsory three-day work week, power cuts, rising unemployment and an economic slowdown. For the miners it has meant an unhappy choice between giving in to the government or digging in for a long, crippling siege that will bring irreparable wage losses and national chaos...
...even more traumatic. The current dispute began last November when the country's 247,000 coal miners refused to work overtime until they received substantial wage increases. Then Heath declared a state of emergency, cut power to industry and businesses by 25%, and put the country on a three-day work week to conserve fuel. Last week the miners lashed back by calling for a vote to strike...
Politically, Heath cannot afford to look as if he is caving in after putting his country through the trauma of the three-day work week. But such a settlement could provide a face-saving way out. By and large, Britons agree that the miners are overworked and underpaid on a base pay of $57 a week. Because wages are not high enough to keep an adequate work force, the miners must work overtime to keep the country from collapse. There has been no strike, no walkout. "I am dead against breaching Stage III, but at the same time...
...Heath must find a resolution soon. Politicians, economists and businessmen warned last week that time is running out for Britain's beleaguered economy. As the country wound up its third three-day work week, the costs in lost production soared to nearly $1 billion. Critics were quick to point out that the annual wage settlement sought by the miners totaled only $200 million. On the international money markets, the pound fell to $2.16, its lowest value ever against the American dollar. Nearly a million Britons had lined up for the dole. Said Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland...