Labor Party Shifts Left With Radical Economic Plan
In Blackpool the Labour Party adopted a sweeping left wing platform to nationalize industry and land, implement a 35 hour week, wealth taxes, and tight controls on capital. The resolutions, pushed by unions, aim to empower a Labour government to challenge private capital and oppose Heath’s wage and price curb.
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Meir Lashes Exit Fees For Emigrants
Premier Golda Meir denounced exit taxes on educated Soviet Jews and called for an unrelenting struggle to revoke the levy. She warned the tax harms a group with high education and many seeking emigration to Israel and cited rising anti Semitism and hostile propaganda in Russia.
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Yugoslavs Tie With Russians In Chess Finals
The ninth round of the men's Olympic chess finals adjourned in Skopje with Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union tied for first at 2 42 points each. Hungary was second on 22 points, followed by West Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands tied for sixth on 18 points.
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