Word: parliament
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...only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...
...drive for political dominance, he has alienated far more than the fanatical Nasser lovers. Last week ex-Foreign Ministry Secretary Fuad Ammoun, a Christian, claimed that six of Lebanon's eight political parties, all the religious leaders, all the former Presidents, Premiers, Foreign Ministers and Speakers of Parliament have taken a stand against the Chamoun regime. Anger at Chamoun is the only single force that unites the divided rebel leadership, much of which is tribal and local and asserts its authority now largely because the government does not or cannot. Many leaders of the Moslem Arabs themselves are politicians...
...police station in the Shetland Islands capital of Lerwick, Teayn identified himself as an Estonian, begged political asylum because "they'll kill me if you send me back." In Parliament M.P.s stormed at this first invasion of the Shetland Islands since the days of the Spanish Armada, when the survivors of a far-ranging Spanish galleon are reputed to have taught the natives the patterns that are still used today in Fair Isle sweaters. Home Secretary Richard A. ("Rab") Butler told the House of Commons that three Soviet captains had landed at Lerwick and demanded that Teayn be handed...
...somewhat vain man who suffered a $120,000 statue of himself to be erected in front of Accra's Parliament House, Nkrumah shocked his British Laborite boosters by cracking down hard on the opposition, led by scholarly Sociologist Kofi Busia of University College. He deported his critics, sent his tough-talking Minister of the Interior, Krobo Edusei, stumping about the country, threatening to "deport aliens and detain without court trial" Ghanaians who opposed the government. But of all Nkrumah's battles, none has been fought more doggedly than the one against the traditional powers of Ghana...
...make an example of Paramount Chief Ofori Atta II, ruler of 500,000 tribesmen in the south. Nkrumah withdrew official recognition from him, then appointed a former British judge to investigate his administration. Last week, after the judge found that Atta II had abused his power, Nkrumah's Parliament transferred control of the chief's funds to the government...