Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arriving Army paratroopers) seemed to have the military situation in hand, as much could not be said for the political front. In the delicately balanced half-Christian, half-Moslem Arab nation, the Moslems began to solidify their opposition to Maronite Christian President Chamoun. Adel Osseyran, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, protested to the U.N. against Chamoun's failure to consult Deputies before calling for U.S. help. One pro-Western Deputy said that 40 of the 66 members of parliament were opposed to the U.S. landing. Chamoun's opponents threatened to boycott the parliamentary election of his successor, scheduled...
...Finland, which fought two doughty wars to save its independence from Communist Russia, the Communists took first place last week in the vote for a new Parliament...
Frankness, said the President of the U.S. last week to the Canadian Parliament, "is a measure of friendship." By that measure, relations between Canada and the U.S. had rarely moved on a friendlier level. Dwight Eisenhower bluntly defended some U.S. policies that had offended Canadians; on other points he offered significant concessions. But the major achievement of President Eisenhower's visit was simply the warm and easy relationship that he and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of Canada developed in three days of close association...
...famed grin did much to soothe the irritations of recent U.S.-Canadian conflicts. No one expected Eisenhower and Diefenbaker to settle all their countries' outstanding problems, but they had made a good start, laid a firm foundation for future easy give-and-take between the White House and Parliament Hill...
...Yourself Parliament. Previews still does 90% of its business in residential land ("The appreciation can be fantastic"), specializes in finding buyers for U.S. residences such as Bing Crosby's seven-room lodge on Hayden Lake in Idaho, now for sale at $95,000. "We don't live by soufflés alone," says Executive Vice President Robert T. Furman Jr. But Previews has made its reputation peddling white elephants and exotic properties. For $300,000 Tysen will sell a half share in an Irish distillery, for $182,000 the title to the Windward Island of Mustique, which Previews...