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Letter: Government under fire: calls for coalitions, resignations and public demonstrations

Sir: Perhaps the Government's attitude to the mining community is best summed up in a quotation from Macbeth, prior to the assassination of Duncan: 'If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.'

Yours sincerely,

N. SADDLER

Brighton

17 October

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