Word: parliament
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Speaking over BBC radio at the invitation of British M.P.s, Denmark's Ombudsman Dr. Stephan Hurwitz outlined his duties. Elected by Parliament (in Hurwitz' case, unanimously), the ombudsman must be a lawyer; he is above party, has a legal staff and annual budget, and is the highest-salaried man in the Danish government. On receiving a complaint from a citizen, or on his own initiative, Dr. Hurwitz can investigate any civil or military establishment. The courts remain outside the ombudsman's control, but he is empowered to look into the affairs of state officials, from Cabinet ministers...
Over the years the CBC has weathered intermittent squalls over charges of political influence and manfully faced up to the annual budgetary ordeal on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Lately the network's luck ran out, and woes came thick and fast...
...French viewers were outraged by a décolletage-studded dramatization of the life of Quebec's Mother Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, aired on the day she was beatified in Rome; Members of Parliament clamored for the jobs of the producers...
...Diplomatic Illness." Socialists objected in Parliament to giving the prince an annual allowance of $70,000. Ex-King Leopold's brother Charles, who served as regent during the war and openly opposed Leopold's return to the throne, flatly refused to attend the wedding. Leopold's unpopular morganatic wife, the handsome Princess Liliane, having been shunted from a lead car to a back car and then to a lead car again, seemed about to suffer from "diplomatic illness" on the big day, but was finally content with limousine No. 4 and ex-King Umberto of Italy...
...head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...