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Heath's immediate foreign policy task will be the negotiations that start next week on Britain's application to join the Common Market. Among his domestic concerns, Heath will face the challenge of healing Britain's race problem while the racist oratory of Enoch Powell echoes in his ears. Some Britons believe that the country's race tension will subside as immigrants become more anglicized and bettereducated. Many sociologists are convinced, however, that the crisis will gather for the next decade or two as the sons of ill-educated colored immigrants graduate from British schools and start to compete with...
...Race," intoned Powell in a campaign speech, "is billed to play a major, perhaps a decisive part in the battle of Britain." In the campaign's closing week, Powell's racist utterings assumed a major role. Demonstrators shouting "Sieg Heiir picketed his rallies, and squads of skinheads in braces and "bovver" boots formed guards of honor for him. Undeniably, Powell's message had substantial appeal to blue-collar white Britons, who resent the intrusions of the Pakistani, West Indian, African and Indian immigrants...
...group of people, ending the war is their major concern. For another, the war is just a manifestation of the sickness of the whole system. It is part of a society which they view as racist, imperialist and male chauvinist. They feel that after the war is over, only the beginning will have been made in making this society what it should...
THESE DIVISIONS emerged at a conference workshop of high school students. One group argued not only that the war should be fought against, but that racism should be attacked. The other group of high school students said that one should concentrate on the war. Since the war was racist, they reasoned, then by fighting against the war, you were also fighting racism. This same group felt the movement should allow liberals to talk at rallies, and support a "contest of ideas." On the other hand, a high school student whose baggy blue jeans sported a battered copy of the writings...
...situation. It repudiated much of the union leadership and called for a worker-student alliance, especially a coalition among students and campus workers. Liberal politicians, SMC and YSA were attacked for having the same interests and underlying goals as the conservatives. They were seen as anti-labor and racist...