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That fear is already evident. In Boston last week, after listening to a group of antinuclear physicians proclaim the hazards of radiation in a series of papers, a young woman whose husband had to go to Harrisburg on business stood up and addressed the panel. Said she: "I don't want him to go, but he says it's his job. We're having a big fight." Would he be safe? she asked the physicians. None could give her a firm answer...
...squared off for an election campaign that is already regarded as perhaps the most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...
...immediate cause of Callaghan's crisis came on March 1, when the referendum in Scotland and Wales fell short of the 40% approval by the total electorate required for the government's home rule, or devolution, bills. The eleven members of the Scottish National Party, whose votes had been essential to the survival of Callaghan's minority government,* nevertheless insisted that the government go ahead with legislation for Scottish home rule. When Callaghan demurred and asked for an all-party conference instead, the Nationalists angrily withdrew their support and demanded a no-confidence vote. Sensing victory...
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...
...short; in case of a tie, House Speaker George Thomas, a Laborite, would have voted for the government. Then came news that changed the balance: Labor M.P. Sir Alfred Broughton, 76, hospitalized after a heart attack, could not make it on a stretcher to vote, while a Tory M.P. whose wife had died said he would come. As the members filed back into the chamber after voting, there was a tense period of anxious suspense until the result was announced: the motion had passed 311 to 310. The Conservative benches erupted into cheers; Thatcher remained seated, showing no emotion. Later...