Wilson Sets Target Date for Slashing Inflation
Prime Minister Harold Wilson aims to reduce Britain's inflation to 10 percent by end of 1975 as he campaigns for a strong five year mandate in the Oct. 10 general election. He faces criticism from Conservatives and Liberals who call his figures manipulative while noting inflation recently dropped from 19 percent to 8.4 percent.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Wilson
William Whitelaw
Liberal
Jeremy Thorpe
Thorpe
Labor Party
Christopher Mayhew
Lord Chalfont
Denis Healey
Britain
Four Parcel Bombs Rock Londonderry Shops and Cafe
Four parcel bombs exploded within minutes in Londonderry Strand Road injuring four shops and a cafe. A fifth bomb was defused and a sixth being handled. Bombs followed a phone warning to police. no casualties. Security cleared area as disposal experts found IRA tied munitions in Dundalk near the border.
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Belfast
UPI
Londonderry
Strand Road
Dundalk
The
Irish Republic
London to Australia dream derailed by last minute doubt
Christine Beale and her husband Roger with four children attempted to fly from London to Brisbane on a British Airways jet. As the plane prepared for takeoff she voiced doubts about moving overseas, prompting a swift halt, luggage retrieval, and stares from passengers. The Beales, who had sold their Stafford home and carried tickets worth 92930, postponed the journey near the gale battered North Wales coast.
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London
British Airways
Australia
Christine Beale
Mrs. Beale
Roger
Beales
Stafford
Brisbane
North Wales
NATO discussions focus on oil problems among allies
President Ford and British Foreign Minister James Callaghan pledged NATO unity as a key factor in tackling inflated oil prices and world inflation. They reviewed plans for a Camp David summit with five major economies and explored an international mechanism to channel oil profits back into the global financial system while sustaining U.S. and Arab interests.
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Washington
UPL
Ford
James Callaghan
NATO
White House
John Hushen
Callaghan
Hushen
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Treasury
William E. Simon
Camp David
Britain
France
Germany
Japan
Kissinger
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Paramount
Torrance Sepulveda
Hawthorne
Opn
Western
Europe
U.S
Nute
Ted Carpets
Cherry Ave
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