Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When parliament met again, the new speaker readmitted the six deputies. Opposition members exploded with fury. They tore their desks from the floor ripped their microphones out of their stands, and charged. Steel microphone stands whipped at Ali's face, a desk panel struck him full on the head, and he went down in a pool of blood. After steel-helmeted cops arrived to break up the melee, sergeants-at-arms bore Mr. Speaker off to a hospital on a stretcher. He died two days later, the first presiding officer of any parliament in the history of the British...
Leopard Tails & Stools. On his birthday Prime Minister Nkrumah could look contentedly at a nation in which political opposition has very nearly been driven from sight. In Parliament his Convention People's Party can muster 80 votes against the United Party's 24. Opposition leaders are discovering that the quickest route to jail is to accuse the government of malpractice. The one remaining threat to Nkrumah's power comes from the tribal chieftains, whose emblems of authority are stools and whose leopard-tailed warriors held off the British for 50 years...
...little Buddhist who has presided over Burma's turbulent fortunes for almost all of its ten years of independence, went on the air and announced that he was resigning and had invited General Ne Win, chief of the armed forces, to head a nonparty government which would dissolve Parliament and "make arrangements essential for holding free and fair elections...
...news was brewing on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker summoned newsmen for a late afternoon press conference, kept them fidgeting until all the nation's stock markets were closed for the day. Then, under the glare of TV lights, Diefenbaker announced a 180° shift in the course of Canada's air-defense planning. The R.C.A.F. will gradually eliminate the nine jet squadrons that now guard the continent's northern frontier, replace them with radar-guided Bomarc missiles built in the U.S. Into the discard: Canada's pride...
Changes between the last Parliment of the Fourth Republic and the first Parliament of the Fifth are likely to result from the new electoral system as much as from possible shifts in the population's votes. What the system will be is still unknown; it is de Gaulle's present cabinet which will be is still unknown; it is de Gaulle's present cabinet which will determine it, and each party is busy advocating the electoral law which is most likely to increase its representation in the next Assembly...