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...months Prime Minister Harold Wilson has cajoled, wheedled and haggled with Britain's powerful labor unions in a vain effort to stop their rampaging wage demands. The basis of his policy was the "social contract," a formal deal (although never written into law) between the government and the labor unions. The government would deliver social welfare benefits in exchange for voluntary restraints in pay settlements. Purpose: to keep workers abreast of-but not ahead of-inflation...
...many economists as a healthy means of erasing some of the trading disadvantages created by the differing rates of inflation between Britain and its competitors. But now the slide was clearly threatening to become a financial Götterdämmerung. Said one Cabinet minister: "Nothing can concentrate Harold's mind more quickly than a fall in the pound...
...Your cousin Harold earns five thousand a year and is married to a nice, respectable girl...
...London took some hope from a five-page telegram that Amin fired off to the Queen later in the week. Nostalgically recalling his 1971 visit to Britain, Amin wrote that he was still ready to receive Callaghan. Seizing on what seemed to be a tentative olive branch, Prime Minister Harold Wilson replied that Callaghan would go to Uganda for talks about "the whole range of political, economic, cultural and technical problems"-as soon as Hills' death sentence had been revoked...
...Harold MacEwen, 34, was paroled from Stateville prison in Illinois after serving 12½ years for killing an off-duty cop during an armed robbery. "The crime itself was inexcusable," says MacEwen, who is studying for his M.A. in psychology and works for the Illinois Department of Corrections. "But I was 20, and what I was also holds true for most young whites and blacks in ghetto slum areas. We would classify each other, and then we would have to live up to the classification. I thought I was hip, in the know, wise, and umpteen other things...