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BRITAIN is experiencing a slowing of the rate of decline in gross domestic product, an indication that the economy is bottoming out. Still, the country faces huge obstacles. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's pact with the unions, which holds wage increases to $12 a week, could reduce the inflation rate from this year's staggering 25%. But unemployment, now 1,250,000, is expected to remain at that painfully high level next year, and economic growth is forecast to be a paltry...
...vote on the mandate was evidence that Washington is changing its policy of aloofness toward the P.L.O. The State Department firmly denies there is any such shift, but there has been some indication of at least willingness to rethink the issue. Last month then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Harold...
...North, the poor nations of the South, and the oil cartel. The original plan was that the nine nations of the Common Market would be represented by only one delegation, speaking for all the member states according to principles worked out in advance. In October, however, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government declared that Britain wanted a seat of its own at the meeting. Wilson said that North Sea oil would soon make Britain a prime producer of oil, and thus it deserved a separate voice...
...Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt acidly described Britain as "the poor relative of Europe." He also reminded Wilson that until the oil begins to flow in volume, a nearly bankrupt Britain will be dependent on the support and good will of the Community's richer members. "Dear Harold," Schmidt said, "you still have two or three difficult years ahead of you. The Community is in the habit of coming to the aid of its members in difficulty. In the event of another economic crisis, there would be great need for the common front of all members...
Harvard coach George Ford nominated five of his players, including top-scoring forward Dave Acorn and last year's All Ivy inside Lyman Bullard. But Acorn and Bullard, fullback Ralph Booth and goalie Fred Harold, received only "honorable mentions" from the Ivy coaches...