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...President is always a Maronite Christian (a Roman Catholic sect with a liturgy of its own. tracing back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite...
...what experts call "impact" projects, i.e., works that hungry, impoverished Iraqis can see in front of them, instead of distant dams that take years to build. The board started only last year to build its first 2,500 low-cost housing units in the capital. Nuri confessed to Parliament last fall that the highway-building program had been "a failure," owing to inadequate preliminary surveys before laying roads across a country whose water table lies often a foot or two below the surface. After critics charged that grafting was widespread, Nuri last year appointed a committee of judges who have...
...were too eager to get back into political grace to be put off by his avowals of philosophical hostility. But when 17 Monarchists and Fascists helped him win a 132-93 vote of confidence in Italy's Senate, the whole nation rang with outrage. In the halls of Parliament, other Deputies mockingly greeted Christian Democrats with a stiff-armed Fascist salute. From the industrial north came frantic warnings that acceptance of Fascist support was sure to cost the Christian Democrats dear in next year's general election...
...went so far as to say: "This is not a crisis of one industry. What is involved is the whole position of the press as a social force in Britain: a major threat to principles that are as vital to the process of democracy as is the freedom of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and the right of association...
Died. Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova, 60, Russia's ranking woman historian, chief editor of Voprosy Istorii (Problems of History), member of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament); after long illness...