Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followers were wondering what the domestic implications were. For a militant putschist, Zaim was getting off to a slow start. First he tried to get Faris el-Khouri, former Premier and Syria's delegate to the United Nations, to form a cabinet. When El Khouri refused, Zaim dissolved parliament and appointed himself temporary Premier at the head of a cabinet of "technicians." Most Syrians, sipping coffee in the bazaars and smoking their hubble-bubble pipes, took hardly any notice of the change in government. In their 4,000-year history they had tasted the rule of Persians, Greeks, Romans...
...Louis St. Laurent was one of the first to speak out for a North Atlantic Treaty. Last week, as the pact was about to be signed in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Prime Minister St. Laurent faced the ever-present problem of the democratic leader: would his own Parliament buy the plan which he had helped sell to others...
...Parliament rang with "Hear! Hear!" Editorialists cheered. The man-in-the-pub took it all with quiet satisfaction. Dissent was small indeed-but sharp. Cried Communist Harry Pollitt: "The U.S. wants to use this country as its unsinkable aircraft carrier and base for the dispatch of the atomic bomb...
Last week Parliament was bickering about the surest and quickest way to teach midwives analgesia (relief of pain without complete loss of consciousness). There are still 7,000 out of 17,000 practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than...
Australia's Federal Parliament last year enacted a compulsory program of free drugs, in which the government would pay pharmacists for all prescriptions. But doctors have refused to cooperate, i.e., write prescriptions on government forms; they say free medicine has led to "tonic swilling" in nearby New Zealand. Parliament is also weighing compulsory health insurance that would pay half of every citizen's doctor bills from the public treasury. Doctors don't like this scheme either; they argue it will bring "a third party into the traditional intimate and confidential relationship between doctor and patient...