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...many Americans taking the waters? For a generation of joggers and beansprouters, mineral water is the ultimate health drink: no calories, artificial flavorings, sweeteners or preservatives. "The primary reason for the Perrier craze," believes Charles Welsh, the company's Western U.S. sales director, "is that the American life-style is heading toward natural food and drink." For many people who have grown wary of pollution in their tap water, a bottle of Saratoga or Evian is, pure and simple, just safer than the kitchen faucet...
Behind the scenes, Laborites were trying desperately to woo minor party M.P.s whose votes might keep the government in office. Suddenly, money was found for Welsh quarrymen suffering from silicosis where none had existed before; almost as suddenly three Welsh Nationalists decided to stay with the government. Labor's tactics prompted an outcry about "sordid haggling," although the Tories were engaged in some backstairs dealing of their own. Having won over the Welsh, Callaghan and his lieutenants turned their attention to three of the twelve members from Ulster; most of the others were Protestant Unionists considered certain to vote...
...parliamentary lineup: Labor 306, Conservatives 281, Liberals 13, Scottish Nationals 11, Ulster Unionists 7, Ulster Independents 3. Welsh Nationalists 3, others...
...Scottish vote. Now well ahead of the Conservative Party in Scotland, the SNP is breathing down the neck of the Labor Party. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, a Laborite, now sees the survival of his minority government as dependent on a shaky unofficial coalition with the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists. Because of Callaghan's vulnerability, the SNP has been able to make devolution a major issue...
Irish people are used to pretending anyway--at least, that's what some scholars who claim St. Patrick was Welsh or Danish would say. Those same scholars might tell you shamrocks don't grow wild in Eire and that there weren't ever any snakes on the Old Sod. They might as well try to convince Bernard F. Kelly, Sr. that his mother wasn't from Ireland. But if all it takes is a hit or two of green to make anyone Irish this week, who cares? The important thing is that St. Pat did indeed exist, somewhere back...