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Dick and Pat will spend two nights in Belgrade with President Tito, lunch with Queen Elizabeth, and briefly visit Prime Minister Edward Heath outside London. They will see Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, spend a night with Italian President Giuseppe Saragat, visit Spain's Francisco Franco in Madrid. Before flying home, the Nixons will seek grave sites of ancestors in the Irish countryside southwest of Dublin. Perhaps the biggest symbolic point of the trip is that it takes the President in and near the ancient regions where Western culture has its roots, and where U.S. security interests...
Three I's. Some other stops on Nixon's tour will be politically eclectic. In London, he will meet with British Prime Minister Edward Heath for the first time since-Heath took office. In response to a longstanding invitation, Nixon will call on Yugoslavia's President Tito, underscoring the Administration's desire for good relations with Communist regimes of all stripes and at the same time its support for Yugoslavia's independence. Nixon is also hoping to repeat in Belgrade the exuberant success of his Rumanian visit of 14 months...
...DEATH: Heath was relying heavily on Iain Macleod, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to draft the blueprint for a new Tory economic structure, to overhaul the tax system and to restore incentives so as to "release the energies of the people." But last week Macleod died suddenly at 56 of a heart attack following an appendectomy from which he had seemed to be recuperating nicely. Macleod and Heath were charter members of the "One Nation" Group formed by liberal Tories in 1950. Borrowing Disraeli's philosophy as well as his phraseology, they sought to destroy the image of the Conservatives...
...Labor, and, as Colonial Secretary in the early 1960s, had helped one African colony after another to independence. Macleod was too radical to suit the crustier members of his party and was bypassed as Tory leader in 1963, yet he was all but irreplaceable. To succeed him, Heath appointed Anthony Barber, 50, Chairman of the Tory Party since 1967 and current top British negotiator with the Common Market...
...Commonwealth. By the time the issue came before the House, it was clear that the government had been blown off course. The opposition so rattled Sir Alec Douglas-Home that the Foreign Secretary twice called Harold Wilson "the Prime Minister." Voting on a Labor motion opposing the deal, Heath's government survived its first serious parliamentary test...