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India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is not used to heckling. But the audience he faced day after day in New Delhi's Parliament House was the most critical he had faced for years. For India's vaunted $10.8 billion second five-year plan, launched with high hopes last year as an answer to India's ancient poverty, was in desperate trouble, and every legislator was demanding: "What do we do now?" Nehru had no answer, except to insist that "the basic structure" of the five-year plan would be carried out. Demanded the M.P.s...
With the College represented as it now is nothing can be expected. The system can be compared only to the "rotten borough" one of eighteenth-century England. Except that while in the latter case it often made for a homogenous Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it produces a heterogeneous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members, and who exert all their scrupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
LONDON, Nov. 28--Prime Minister Macmillan disclosed to Parliament today a British pledge to send no more arms to Tunisia without consulting the French. However, he did not rule out more arms for the former French protectorate...
...advocate and practitioner of white supremacy, South Africa's Prime Minister Johannes Strydom has few rivals. One of these is his brother-in-law Jan de Klerk, 54. Strydom appointed De Klerk, a onetime paid party official who has never been elected to Parliament, his Minister of Labor. Eager to curry more votes among the ardent white-supremacist farmers of the platteland, Minister de Klerk promptly ordered South Africa's garment industry to hold in reserve "for whites only" some 30,000 to 40,000 garment jobs, ranging in categories from cutter to supervisor...
Lebanese security forces refused to permit 17 members of the Syrian Parliament to cross the border into this tiny republic on the Mediterranean shoreline...