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Hilltop Fires. Cynics dismissed the Jubilee as an exercise in irrelevance at best and a needless extravagance at worst. A fairer view was that Britons-in a mood for a holiday from such irksome problems as inflation, unemployment, trade-union troubles and political woes-genuinely wanted to pay affectionate tribute to a gracious lady who has been a symbol of stability, humane decency and traditional values during one of her nation's most difficult quarter-centuries...
...Likud state of mind might provoke another war with the Arabs. Said one woman, who lost a brother in the Six-Day War and her husband in the October War: "All I can see is a long line of husbands whose wives will become widows." Warned an alarmed trade-union leader: "The Likud will force us into another war. Begin relies on God, but we will have to rely on our divisions. The workers will suffer, and a new left will rise from the ruins...
Mythical Menace. Last week, in a major speech before a congress of Soviet trade-union leaders, Brezhnev excoriated Carter's human rights policy in extraordinarily strong terms. Hammering furiously on the lectern, the Russian declared that such "interference in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union," plus a "slanderous campaign" in the U.S. about the "myth" of the Soviet military menace, stood in "direct opposition to further improvement of Soviet-American relations." He attacked "Washington's claim to teach others how to live" when, he said, neither U.S. domestic nor foreign policy can justify moralizing...
Austerity Measures. Suárez's clever stage-managing of the reform bill was fresh evidence that his government is navigating with some confidence down the political middle. Shortly before the Cortes vote, the left made itself felt when Spain's illegal but officially tolerated trade-union blocs staged what they described as a one-day general strike to protest government austerity measures. But the most remarkable thing about the only partially successful strike was its restraint-clear evidence that even labor's leftists hoped that the reform bill would pass...
Appearing with his wife Elizabeth and his daughter Maura '79, Moynihan thanked various aides and supporters, expressing particular gratitude to "the trade-union movement...