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As the largest fishing country in the world, it would be a pity if the ocean-going fleets all over the oceans are not utilized.

As for land, the Soviet embassies of various countries can also contact the General Administration of Communications Management Technology at any time. At sea, the Soviet ocean-going fleet has been haunting the nuclear test sites of various countries for a long time to collect information.

Now that the MiG-25 fighter jet and its pilot are missing, it is time to think of a solution from the Eighth Headquarters station in the Far East. Of course, there is another reason, to see if there is really a spy network developed by imperialism in the Far East Army.

Alekseev actually understands very well that these soldiers don't like to see him appear. Although he is also a soldier and has a military rank in name, the general Soviet people may not be able to distinguish it, but how could these military personnel not know? The difference between soldiers and themselves.

As a violent organization with a long history, the military is definitely unwilling to have an intelligence department appear on its own territory, but not only did the KGB do it, but also set up a special headquarters to deal with military intelligence, whether it is land, sea, air, homeland defense, air force or strategic Rocket Army, without a single exception.

To drain the Sea of ​​Japan and find MiG-25 fighter jets is actually just a joke. He knows that it is not so easy. Even if he does find it, he does not need to fish it up. He just needs to confirm the damage and blast it.

The military is definitely unwilling to expand the situation, but if the situation does not expand, what is the significance of the existence of the National Security Council?

Although Alexeyev didn't want to think about it, the security and intelligence department hoped that the bigger the better, the so-called heterosexual repulsion, the KGB is also a violent organization, and the military is a violent organization that has such a different meaning.

From this moment on, the entire Sea of ​​Japan was flooded with Soviet electronic reconnaissance ships, and they began to conduct dragnet searches. Even if they couldn't find them, this step had to be done.

The Far Eastern Military Region has also welcomed the KGB's care this time. 46 commanders at all levels, including three major generals Grilelov, Balamonov, and Koselev, were transferred and ordered to retire. Lian Ke's comrades-in-arms were the hardest hit areas, and faced interrogation by the General Administration of Military Affairs on the grounds of loss of vigilance.

"It is necessary to clarify the responsibilities and obligations to the motherland and the family. Even the army defending the motherland should focus on strengthening education in this area."

Lubyanka NO.11, KGB headquarters, Lieutenant General Yesov, the director of the General Administration of Military Affairs, faced Andropov's ear-to-mouth instructions, and kept nodding to express that he would definitely implement the instructions.

At this moment, the phone on the table came to mind, and Andropov picked up the phone directly, "I'm Andropov."

"Comrade Andropov, I want to talk about things in the Far East." Ustinov came after a while, "Lubyanka scrupulously abides by his responsibilities. I don't want to criticize this, but? The frontline troops are inevitable. There was an omission, Belenko’s comrades did make mistakes, but the court-martial?”

Andropov looked at Lieutenant General Yesov, who nodded and replied, "Comrade Ustinov, the Ministry of Defense must have misunderstood something. We are extremely distressed when this happens, but we will do it." If it doesn’t spread widely, I will definitely not send Belenko’s comrades-in-arms to prison, mainly for criticism and education, but if they continue to serve? Right!”

Alan Wilson, who is far away in London, does not know the internal situation of the Soviet Union, but the search by the Soviets on the Japanese sea is not a secret. The man with the plane is now missing, that's pretty much the truth.

Japan in the Far East was tense for several months and spent the rest of [-] because of the actions of the Soviet Union.

The results of the U.S. general election in November came out. Carter, who was supposed to beat Rockefeller upside down, ended up with nothing to show for it except his image as a morally perfect man, that is, he narrowly defeated the incumbent President Rockefeller.

"I really want to see how the world will change if Rockefeller becomes president." Allen Wilson sighed. If Rockefeller is re-elected, his friend Reagan, who has been writing letters, probably won't be able to sit in the next presidential election. The president of the United States is already an 80s version of the sleeping king. He was already quite old when he came to power.

Callahan, who also just became prime minister this year, congratulated Carter on his victory out of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, and immediately received a warm response.

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America was about to enter a presidency that was strict with self-interest, and just after Rockefeller had spent the rest of his time, Carter's era would come.In the congratulatory letter to Carter, Alan Wilson asked people to make some revisions and put a lot of ink into the field of human rights. This can't be helped. Carter likes to hear this.

And different from the loud slogans of previous U.S. presidents, Carter really did this to a certain extent. If Carter hadn’t been re-elected in the last year, it is reasonable to infer that Quan Xiaojiang will become that unlucky guy, maybe He would have been taken down by Carter. Fortunately, Junior Quan persisted until Reagan came to power, otherwise we would have seen each other long ago.

The political ecology of South Korea is very interesting. It can be summed up by a saying that I can be pro-a certain country because I oppose a certain country. When left-wing parties are in power, they dare not be too alienated from the United States.Although anti-Americanism is often put on the sidelines, there are not many actual actions.

Pro-American slogans of right-wing political parties are resounding, and they do what they should do in actual actions.

This is very similar to the British Labor Party and the Conservative Party. When the Conservative Party was in opposition, they doubted the Labor Party's loyalty to Britain as soon as they saw what the Labor Party government was talking about with the Soviet Union.

If the Conservative Party signed any agreement with the Soviet Union when it was in power, it would be a confident statement that it was all based on national interests, and the label of pro-Soviet cannot be pinned on the Conservative Party.

Conversely, is it okay for the Labor Party to question the Conservative Party as being too pro-American?At least not in the context of the Cold War. The Soviet Union is an enemy in a relative sense, and the relative meaning is entirely because the Soviet Union is too strong.

Relatively enemies are also enemies, and relative allies are also allies.Labour's accusations would only be useful if the Soviet Union was clearly stronger than the United States.

Praising Carter personally helps to build a close relationship. After all, Carter has not yet come to power, so it is not possible to praise his leadership for the time being. Wick, the executive undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is not without doubts, "Is it too focused on Mr. Carter personally? "

"That's right, just send it to Washington. Mr. Carter is a respectable person." Alan Wilson nodded, "I believe that under the leadership of Mr. Carter, the United States' leadership in defending world peace will be significantly improved. growth. It is easy for the two countries to work together on some things.”

Carter should belong to a president who has never waged a war, and small-scale military operations should not be counted, otherwise the Tehran hostage incident would not be counted.Decades later, only the king of knowledge can compare.

Wick left, but he didn't know what the supreme authority said was easy to cooperate. Alan Wilson was actually referring to the ownership of the Falkland Islands.President Carter protects human rights and opposes dictatorship. Doesn't he oppose colonialism?

President Carter had four years to convince Argentina that the British Empire would collapse without a fight as the United States looked on, if only Argentina had the courage to march forward with a straight chest.

Using the only model president in the United States may make Alan Wilson feel a little ashamed. If he had a choice, he would not do it, but it would be a pity not to do so.

President Carter has never waged a war. The bottom line is clear. Even if it does so, the United States will not threaten the United Kingdom with force. The United Kingdom only needs to wait for the end of Carter's term.This poses little risk, as for the next step?Use judgment on a case-by-case basis.

It is impossible for a president not to have made decisions that are beneficial to the country, even Carter, who was regarded as a negative example by American hardliners decades later.Carter was the first U.S. president to recognize the sole legitimate government of a major country.

Carter certainly has his merits.Of course, after Reagan came to power, he passed the law on relations with Deception Island, which is tantamount to playing tricks on a certain big country.

When Carter was sworn in, the Callahan government was waging a game with Whitehall on the issue of salary increases. This was the previous salary increase plan for the next three years, and it was time to implement it again.

The Trade Union Confederation once again accepted the second-stage plan in [-], which limited salary increases to £[-] to £[-] per week. The salary range, and promise not to re-propose the salary agreement under the existing policy, and the government promises not to interfere with the labor negotiations of the labor union.

Callahan hopes that unions will support a voluntary personal income tax plan introduced by the current government, stipulating that workers' wages cannot be raised above a cap set by the government.The Labor Party hopes that through this plan, trade unions and labor will maintain restraint on wage increases and tide over the difficulties with the government, thereby suppressing inflation by limiting wage increases.

"Secretary-General, isn't this very good?" Callahan said calmly, "I don't understand why Whitehall has doubts about this."

"Prime Minister, there are two main reasons for my doubts. The first is that the labor unions are greedy, and they want to raise wages again and again. Even if it is a salary increase, it should be done in moderation. I don't want the result of a race between wages and inflation in the UK. This is the first point."

Alan Wilson also spoke sincerely, "If the workers get a raise, will the civil servants also get a raise? If only the workers are given a raise, but the civil servants' pockets are empty, isn't that true? As for the salary increase The situation of racing against inflation, many military plans will be greatly reduced because of this situation.”

"To ensure the living standards of the workers, don't you, as the cabinet secretary of Whitehall, know how powerful the Soviet Union is now?" Callahan frowned, hoping that Alan Wilson would understand the seriousness.

"I know, tanks cost tens of thousands, and nuclear submarines cost hundreds. Doesn't this mean that the advancement of military plans is far more important than other things? Dear Prime Minister, the UK may have to consider the issue of industrial upgrading. Coal workers and The value created by steelworkers is not enough to keep up with rising wages."

Alan Wilson took Germany as an example and said, "The Federal Republic of Germany has gradually phased out the coal industry. Even if it is only a single action, Bonn can be regarded as an action, but our government has not taken any action, and continues to do so in order not to be more expensive than coal workers in other countries. The able workers retain unprofitable jobs."

The Secretary-General of the Cabinet, who is deeply concerned about the future of the country, blocked the peace talks between the trade unions and the Labor Party from the military and industrial perspectives. Of course, these are not the main reasons.

The main reason is that civil servants also need to raise their salaries. When necessary, they can also bring members of the House of Commons. If civil servants cannot raise their salaries, neither can workers.

At the critical moment, Alan Wilson must defend the collective interests, otherwise, who will listen to what he, the cabinet secretary, will say in the future?

5000 million British citizens need to be managed, who will serve them?Is it the prime minister or the cabinet secretary?It's not that these civil servants, large and small, are needed. They will only work hard if they are fed.

If he, the secretary-general of the cabinet, is not supported by these civil servants all over the country, he will be a fart.

After Alan Wilson left from the Prime Minister, he immediately met Frank, the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, and asked Dennis Healey, the Minister of Finance after Callahan and the former Secretary of Defense.

"The minister is adapting to the new world." Frank said with a fox-like smile. "When he was in the Ministry of Defense, Makins said that the minister tried his best to save money. Now that he is the chancellor of the exchequer, he should understand that spending money is like water." Feel."

"Have you made a salary increase plan?" Alan Wilson stretched out his hand directly, not forgetting to ask, "Idiot version."

"How can I give you something that I can't understand myself." Frank laughed at himself, "But is it really okay to tie it up with workers' salary increases? In principle, we should handle it ourselves."

"Callaghan dare not refuse the union's request for a salary increase. That is the main supporter of the Labor Party." Alan Wilson looked at the salary increase plan and said, "It's a rare opportunity, just this once."

"That's no problem. I'm mainly afraid that politicians will trouble us with the excuse of incompetence. This may be a sign." Frank put down his worries, and then glanced at Alan Wilson, "Once this happens, You know that, Alan, and it's going to shake your position too."

"The comparison of general high-paying jobs in industry is obviously inappropriate." Alan Wilson looked at the salary increase plan of the Ministry of Finance and shook his head, "especially when comparing the salary increase requests of labor unions. It seems very excessive. This method is not appropriate."

"Then what do you think should be done?" Frank also felt that it seemed a little inappropriate, but if he didn't resolve it together with the union's request, the resistance would increase if he pushed it himself.

"Compare it with the requirements of the trade union, and add specific requirements based on this." Alan Wilson said while thinking, "The salary increase of most civil servants in the country is also consistent with the demands of the workers. As for us? Since the relevant personnel are all If you work in London, start by increasing the London allowance, which is an expense. It is not included in the salary increase, and then you can use the special degree allowance to give first- and second-level first-class degrees to recruit new people.”

"Oxford doesn't have a second class." Frank looked at Alan Wilson and asked, knowing the proportion of Oxford graduates in Whitehall.

"Oxford's second class is at least second class first class." Alan Wilson calculated with his forehead, "Double the outstanding performance award, and colleagues in Whitehall have this award. It will be included in the deduction of inflation."

"Indeed." Frank was obviously calculating one by one in his mind, "Then what are the responsibilities of the congressmen?"

"It is to increase the salary with Whitehall." Alan Wilson put down his pen, "If it is too obvious, it is recommended to increase oil and medical subsidies. Members are working hard for the country. If travel and physical and mental health are still beyond their means? This is very difficult. Makes sense."

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Alan Wilson, who was struggling for a better future for the family of civil servants, was a little surprised when the head of MI[-] Oldfield came to his door, and then motioned to sit down, "What's the matter."

"A machine tool export transaction in foreign trade may have violated the ban of the Paris Coordinating Committee, in order to avoid trouble."

Before Oldfield finished speaking, Alan Wilson had already stretched out his hand and swayed, "Oldfield, to be honest, considering the environment faced by British machine tools today, you can't make such a move to break your own leg and watch others rush towards you. The move at the end, understand?"

The glory days of British machine tools are too far away, and the high-gloss period was almost 100 years ago, but it is undeniable that there are still machine tool companies in the UK.

Machine tool is a big concept. After all, there are quite a few categories of industries, so each country has its own strengths. Britain has not yet de-industrialized, and of course it has its own machine tool company.

Of course, it is true that it is not outstanding in this world. It can only be regarded as a member of the crowd. Britain itself imports a lot of German machine tools for use, but it is by no means unavailable.

15 years ago, Bendix Corporation of the United States realized the best adaptive control on the CNC milling machine for the first time.Ten years ago, Fox in the United States first proposed the concept of institutional optimization.British Molins company developed "System 24" according to the basic concept of flexible manufacturing system proposed by Williamson.

It's not very competitive in the first place, not to mention facing Germany, even countries like France are very troublesome. Finally, someone is interested, so MI[-] should not come out to make trouble. I don't know that Whitehall is now because of a salary increase. Are you busy with plans?

Oldfield remained silent, and Alan Wilson said with a tone of traitors among us, "Actually, as an intelligence chief, you understand quite well how many things that European countries secretly exported to the Soviet Union that are on the embargo list of the Paris Coordinating Committee? It’s not small, a little bit of export is a little bit. Nothing will happen, will the United States really cause trouble for this?”

Except Japan!There is no need for Oldfield to know this supplement in his heart. The situation in Japan is quite special, and it is essentially being used by the United States to make a big deal out of it.

First of all, there is a premise that the Soviet Union's machine tools are not backward, and they are also very capable in some specific fields of machine tools. Most of the Soviet machine tools are for their own use, but they are also exported to the world.

European countries exported a large number of machine tools to the Soviet Union, and at the same time imported Soviet electrolytic processing machine tools and electrochemical polishing machine tools. No one was punished for this.

Japan's machine tools are not advanced enough to be stronger than Europe's. We must know that Germany and Switzerland are the industry benchmarks in this regard. Japan has never had an impact on Europe in the high-end industrial field.

When the Toshiba incident broke out, the general environment was that Japan and the United States broke out in the most intense trade war in the past, the automobile trade war.The importance of the automobile industry can be seen by considering that people juxtapose houses with cars. The automobile industry can be said to be real estate for the whole world.

In the trade war between Japan and the United States, the previous trade wars in textiles, steel, electronics, and automobiles were not as fierce as the previous trade wars. Japan does not want to capture real estate that is open to the world, but the United States cannot stand being invaded by Nissan for a long time. The determination is also unprecedented in what has been the most intense trade war between the two countries.

The Toshiba incident not only has the role of Japan, but also the role of Norway. Norway has long provided the Soviet Union with automatic artillery aiming computers, and this kind of computer is strictly prohibited from being exported to the Soviet Union by the Paris Coordinating Committee.

It can be seen that a secret channel for delivering special goods has long been established between the Soviet Union and Norway.

Norway has nothing to do with it, and Japan has been put to death by the Toshiba incident, so there is no need to worry about the ban. The ban is only valid for specific countries, such as Japan, which has a high status in the free world.

This is just an episode. Alan Wilson turned around and went back to work on the wage increase negotiations with the union. Of course, he must do his best to prevent the union from achieving its goal. This is the responsibility. There is no free lunch in the world. Although after years of hard work, The pound is in a much better position than it has been in history, but it must be admitted that the mainstream international settlement currency is the US dollar.

It is no longer like before World War II, when the UK could use the pound to buy the goods it needs from all over the world at will, and the threat of inflation caused by printing money also exists in the UK.

Once the pound is under pressure and depreciates, the effect of salary increases will be diluted. The Ministry of Finance has issued multiple warnings on this point, hoping that the trade unions will understand the danger.

Whitehall hopes to add a framework, which is to increase the 5.00% limit of weekly salary increase in each stage of the three-year period, and make it clear that the trade union cannot continue to threaten the government with the threat of strike.

"I didn't expect the Secretary-General to think that the trade union's fight for legitimate rights and interests is blackmailing the government." Goodman, the leader of the trade union, was almost furious.

"Mr. Goodman, don't be angry, it's just a difference in perspective." Alan Wilson waved his hand, "It's good to have ideals, but reality often doesn't allow too many ideals."

At this time, he suddenly remembered a line from a movie, you are still young, it is right to have ideals, but when you are my age and your family needs money, and I don’t have anything, you will know how important money is.

When I was negotiating with trade union representatives, I thought of such a sentence. It may not be suitable for the situation, but it is indeed a sincere statement. If the trade union does not demand a salary increase, civil servants’ salary increase demands can be suppressed. If the trade union does not compromise, regardless of the increase In the end, the civil servants will have to pay even more.

But Goodman obviously did not have this consideration. He showed the fearless attitude of the working class and told the Whitehall bureaucrats that death does not belong to the working class.

"Sometimes, I have to admire people's blindness. They don't know the problem at all." Walking out of the negotiation site, Alan Wilson said to Frank, "No matter what kind of demands they make, the ultimate beneficiaries must have Our part, that's why it's important to establish rules."

Obviously, the union will not sit still. Goodman then held a protest from Glenwick in London, and Whitehall responded with surveillance by the RCMP.

"Oh, woman!" Alan Wilson, in the Cabinet Secretary's Office, held the photo taken with a grimace on his face, "Frank, what do you feel when you see this photo?"

"Women, the proportion of ethnic minorities is so high." Frank took the photo and saw the clues at a glance, "But according to our understanding, immigrants and women are extremely enthusiastic about trade union affairs, surpassing native-born citizens. .”

"Of course, I'm not hiding anything. The average weekly salary of these ethnic minorities and women is 28 pounds, which is only a fraction of the average weekly salary of 72 pounds, and it is also less than the average weekly salary of women."

"Women's average weekly salary is 48 pounds. This is indeed a little less. No wonder they are so keen on participating in trade union affairs. Goodman is also trying to use immigrants to put pressure on us." Alan Wilson sighed To be honest, if Mrs. Thatcher is in power now, he will definitely give advice to the army to take to the streets.

And just now a thought flashed in his mind, wanting to leave the other party to Grace, but after much deliberation, the decision was still in Callahan's hands.

Within trade unions, decentralization has also been going on.As time went on in the late 60s, and the postwar generation grew up to bring industrial democracy to the fore, union members felt they should be involved in decisions about when, where and whether to strike, which were traditionally made by union leaders.

"Can we start with public officials?" Frank put forward his own suggestion. The trade unions are not without people who work for the government. The simplest example is firefighters.

"We can't hurt our own people." Alan Wilson shook his head slowly but firmly. He is the secretary general of the cabinet. He wants to protect the overall interests of civil servants. He cannot sacrifice the government employees within the union to fight the union. This will not work. It will only make this group suffer from splints.

"What has to be done has been done. We have done what we should do. The cabinet still has the right to decide, and the prime minister is to be precise. The prime minister can think about it himself."

Alan Wilson has been blocking it for three months, and it has played the role that Whitehall should have. The remaining matters will naturally be resolved by the Prime Minister himself, and he is still unwilling to care about these shitty things.

After more than half a year of appeals, and the white armed forces in Southern Rhodesia have increasingly broken through the lower limit and began to suppress with heavy hands, the two opposing sides in Southern Rhodesia finally took London's appeal seriously, and had a little idea to talk, Wick Informed the news to Alan Wilson, who had just been freed from negotiating with the union.

After Ian Smith returned to Southern Rhodesia last time, he took seriously the advice given by Alan Wilson to reduce the worries of the black armed forces serving the current government.It has indeed started a series of work to unite people's hearts, provided material security for the families of black soldiers, and promised that even if it failed, they could be arranged to live in British Kenya to avoid future retaliation.

The battle situation in Southern Rhodesia suddenly became bloody. Although the white armed forces were elite enough, their population base was so small that they did not have the power to counter guerrilla warfare. The battle situation depended on the combat effectiveness of the black armed forces.

However, although Ian Smith has united the hearts of the people, after the independence of Angola and Mozambique, the pressure on Southern Rhodesia has been unprecedented, and Ian Smith does not have the ability to successfully suppress it.

On the one hand, Ian Smith did not dare to relax the suppression, on the other hand he began to publicly threaten to completely destroy the modern traces of Southern Rhodesia and force a temporary ceasefire of resistance.

"What kind of French behavior." Alan Wilson sighed, "Let both parties come to London, and the door of the round table conference is open to all peace-loving people. By the way, you can ask President Carter if he should play a leadership role."

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President Carter is very suitable for this kind of diplomatic occasion calling for peace. If Alan Wilson remembers correctly, Carter is famous for his hard work and ability to run. After becoming president, he really ran around the world to resolve differences one after another.

If Carter became president when the United States was strong and crushing other countries, he would definitely become a widely respected president.

But at this time, when the post-war generation in the Soviet Union is fully grown up, and when the United States has lost too much blood after the Vietnam War, President Carter is not under so much pressure.

The issue of Southern Rhodesia is very suitable for Carter to come forward, and Britain can handle it by itself, but if Carter expresses his willingness to help, the idea of ​​​​Britain's partition will undoubtedly be more easily achieved.

This matter does not need to be handled through diplomatic channels. It can also be communicated from the intelligence system. The current director of the CIA is Bush, the realist conservative, and the president of the United States after Reagan’s dementia. He is contributing to the United States in the field of intelligence. .