Word: parliament
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What the Communists presumably mean by a confederation is an arrangement under which both East and West Germany would retain their present governments and economic systems, and even commitments, but would establish some kind of "federal" parliament or high commission to regulate any trade and relations between the two Germany's, the one free, the other Communist. Even if a confederation were fairly proportioned between West Germany's 54 million people and East Germany's 17.4 million, it would mean open Western acceptance of the East German Communist government and of the Soviet presence in East Germany...
...virtual elimination of the Communists from the National Assembly meant a welcome end to the Red log-jamming that has plagued every French Parliament since World War II. All the same, the makeup of the new Assembly prompted many a Frenchman to echo the question posed by Le Monde: "Is the bride too beautiful...
...Venkataraman is Minister for Industries, Labour, Cooperation, Housing and Slum Clearance, Clearance and Commercial Taxes in Madras and a former M.P. "In most cases, an Indian politician would rather be a state official than a Member of Parliament," he commented...
BERLIN, Monday--West Berlin voters early Monday solidly rejected the Soviet Union's bid to make West Berlin a neutral city by swamping the Communists in the election of a new city parliament...
Defying Communist threats to the isolated city, West Berliners turned out in record numbers to bar the Reds completely from the 133-seat parliament...