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...absent, partly because they receive no salary. The more compelling reason, however, was that the newly arrived British delegation had declared its ambitious intention of turning the European Parliament into a sort of continental Westminster. "We are going to operate as if this were our own Parliament." declared Peter Kirk. 44. leader of the 21-person British delegation (the antiMarket Labor Party declined to send its allotted 15 delegates). "We will make this a real backbenchers' Parliament." He added, somewhat undiplomatically: "Too bad it will be difficult to interrupt all those foreign-language speeches, but I suppose...
...page memorandum. Kirk proposed, among other things, that the Parliament provide for a question period, so that Common Market Commissioners might be grilled, and set up a committee to seek advice from national parliaments, universities and other sources on how to reform itself. The standing committees, he suggested, should stop scrutinizing legislative fine print and assay instead the long-term policies of the Commission and Council of Ministers. Professing himself "astonished at the latent powers" already available. Kirk proposed that Parliament use its limited authority to question the EEC budget and set up a permanent commission to examine the accounts...
...MAIN BUILDING (77 Mass. Ave.), "W.C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin Orgy" a series of shorts, Jan. 14. 7 and 9:30 The Heroes of Telemark starring Kirk Douglas. Jan. 21. 7 and 9:30 $.50 donation for CARE-Nicaragua Fund...
...Gunfight. Johnny Cash's first feature film. Cash stars with Kirk Douglas as a gunfighter-gladiator in a showdown for profit. Strictly for Cash fans. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...
SATURDAY: Is Paris Burning? An all-star cast including Orson Welles, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, and Yves Montand fails to rescue this confused French account of the 1944 Liberation of Paris...