Word: lois
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mons, a crowd of 15,000 singing first the anticapitalist Internationale, then the anticlerical Down with the Cassocks, filled the city's main square to hear Renard lash out at Eyskens' Loi Unique and shout his creed. With relish Renard pointed out that the strike was costing the capitalist owners of industry a billion francs ($20 million) a day. "Every time you cross off a day on the calendar," he cried, "think, another billion less for them!" Would Renard call off the strike? "A single word!" he shouted. "Persist...
When Parliament reconvened after the holiday recess, Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Liberal-Christian government brushed aside Socialists' demands that the Loi Unique be withdrawn, won a vote of confidence 121-83. Those who knew the Premier and his unyielding tenacity predicted that he would fight it through to the bitter end. At 55, Eyskens has lost neither his native Flemish stubbornness nor his passion for cold, precise logic. The stubbornness was vividly illustrated last year when even King Baudouin was demanding his resignation after the Congo was lost; Eyskens held fast, and Baudouin gave in rather than make...
...week's end Eyskens reportedly was standing firm. But even he was talking of dissolving Parliament and calling for elections once the Loi Unique was passed. There were many who feared that things would not stop at that...
...pinch would be felt by all classes, the Premier insisted, but the opposition Socialists rose with angry shouts when Eyskens proposed a legislative catchall called the Lot Unique (single law). Labeling it the Loi Cynique, they insisted its tax provisions (e.g., a 20% boost in sales tax as well as income tax increases) would hit workers hardest, argued that its cuts in health and unemployment programs (which, some Socialists admit privately, are outrageously featherbedded) were "a step 25 years back into the past." "Not True, Not True." When the bill came up for debate on the floor of Parliament just...
...Crown Council - which meets only at the most critical moments in the nation's history - be convened to discuss Premier Eyskens' proposal? Eyskens himself opposed the idea, insisting he always was ready to discuss amend ments to the bill in the proper place -Parliament. Withdrawal of his Loi Unique would amount to an admission of defeat and political suicide for the present government. The young man in the royal palace, however, has his own future to consider...