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Among the riflemen were lots of would-be Wyatt Earps, backed up by 300 impatient gunners of a U.S. artillery battalion. But so far, there was not a sign that the Viet Cong would test their perimeter, and through the long, hot days the troops were getting bored. As a precaution they were digging their foxholes a little bit deeper. As one paratrooper put it: "The longer we stay here, the more of a target we become...
...minutes before the final vote was to be taken at 10 p.m. Brown rose to reaffirm that the government was in favor of government ownership of steel, declaring: "By the way the owners of the industry have been behaving, nothing short of 100% ownership will do." Then, glancing at Wyatt, he added: "If the industry will come to us, and say that they are prepared for the government to assume control, we will listen to what they have...
...Listen?" yelled Wyatt. "Do you mean, if industry will come forward to concede complete control on less than 100%, you are prepared to listen? If so, I will vote for White Paper." While Big Ben struck 10, Brown shouted, " 'Listen' is the key word...
Totting Up the Ayes. After that, it was simply a matter of totting up the ayes, who included Wyatt, Donnelly and several sick M.P.s. The whips are by now accustomed to rallying invalids from their beds for crucial votes (Laborite Leslie Spriggs voted from his ambulance in the parliamentary parking lot, but Tory Anthony Marlowe left his ambulance to vote indoors). Labor won by 310 to 306, its basic four-vote margin...
Harold Wilson's apparent turnabout on the subject of total nationalization, however, struck doctrinaire socialists as anything but fair play. Furious at the concession offered Wyatt, three militant Labor left-wingers, Ian Mikardo, Michael Foot and Tom Driberg, called for an urgent party meeting to "get some clarification" on the real intentions of Harold Wilson...