Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidewalks-of-New-York-spoken Catholic from the Bowery. There were other suggestions offered; a senior from Hollis under the cryptic cognomen of "Number Ten" announced the formation of a King George-for-President Party, one of whose platform planks was to exchange Memorial Hall for the Houses of Parliament. The gargoyles growled...
Near the Athens airport last week, a U.S. military car driven by a U.S. airman struck two pedestrians, killing 66-year-old General Stefanos Sarafis, a member of Parliament and World War II guerrilla hero, and injuring his wife Marion. On orders from U.S. Ambassador George Allen, the airman was handed over immediately to Greek authorities, who charged him with negligent manslaughter, and said he had been drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis...
Some Syrians, long unhappy with their country's role as instrument of Soviet policy in the Middle East, acted. At week's end 35 Shaabist Deputies resigned from Syria's 132-man Parliament, and 25 sympathizers were expected to follow. The middle-class Shaab (People's) Party comes closer than any other important group in the country to being pro-Western, even though its campaign propaganda talks as loudly about "positive neutrality" as anyone else. The resignations may bring on a general election, but there is no evidence that in such an election, the ruling clique...
...tasks interrupted by the Suez invasion was President Nasser's widely publicized promise to provide his regime with a popularly chosen Parliament. Nasser himself often told American visitors, in the friendly old days, that he knew his regime was too narrowly based, and that if he could keep out the corrupt and reactionary old politicians, he would like to revive democracy in Egypt. In fact, his narrow little junta of officers have neither the competence, the imagination or the time to administer Egypt's economy; in their distrust of everything past and pro-Western, they have shut themselves...
After a futile two-day effort to renew his visa in New Delhi, Romeo Rossellini, inexplicably driving around in a car belonging to the husband of his girl friend, managed a Bombay getaway only after a member of India's Parliament asked him pointblank: "Are you sleeping with Sonali?" The hesitant answer: "No." Brother and sister, sort of? "I wouldn't say that, either...