Word: councill
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Though Monegasques have talked off and on for years about introducing democratic reforms in their sunny land, which has no income taxes and no military service, the legislative council has never been anything more than a docile advisory body. Then, in February, the councilors unanimously passed a motion of censure against Rainier's French Minister of State, the luxury-loving Henry Soum. Just why they objected to the minister so, they never made quite clear, but they nevertheless demanded that he be fired. The Prince refused. He also rejected a resolution which, though couched in almost obsequious language...
Last week the council denounced a royal decree that had set up a special administrative appeals tribunal, responsible only to the Prince. When the council began taking up constitutional reforms again, Rainier's court minister said he would have to leave. By a unanimous 18-to-0 vote, the council went on into its talk anyway, and the minister stalked out. Then the councilors passed a resolution demanding that women be given the right to vote and to run for the council. This was a particularly nasty blow for the Prince. As all Monaco knows. Princess Grace...
...only had Princess Grace given birth to a son and heir in March, but Monaco had enjoyed its headiest and gayest season since the war. Yet for His Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III, 35, it was a time of continual vexation. Ever since the new 18-man legislative council took office in January, the prerogatives of Europe's last absolute monarch had come under serious question...
...Council as the 57,000 whites. Nor did he like another British plan to divide an extra twelve special seats equally among Africans. Arabs and Europeans. When a group of moderate Africans agreed to run for these special seats. Mboya and six of his henchmen denounced them as "stooges, traitors and quislings." With that, the Crown haled Mboya & Co. into court for conspiracy and criminal libel...
...important guideposts of the U.S. economy goes by the jawbreaking name of Diffusion Indexes of Business Indicators. The indexes, compiled by the National Bureau of Economic Research, are becoming widely used by major corporations and such top economists as Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and his predecessor, Arthur Burns, to predict the course of the economy. Last week the diffusion indexes gave a signal that the economy had about touched bottom...