Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was anger in Israel as the Knesset met to debate Premier David Ben-Gurion's decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer...
...prevent Gomulka's return to power after the Poznan riots, a champion of the policy of encouraging anti-Semitism in order to divert the anger of the masses from the Stalinist party leaders. Nowak's name had been stricken from the list of candidates for the new Parliament...
Promising Retreat. Sukarno finally backed down. He still insisted on including the Communists in a National Council which, as originally proposed, would have had veto powers over Cabinet decisions as well as acts of the Indonesian Parliament. But now, he said, the council's role would be advisory only...
...more modest scheme: rebating $28 of taxes to every homeowner in his province. Both British Columbia's Bennett and Alberta's Manning, having built solid political bases at home, are now planning a drive to add to the 15 seats that Social Crediters occupy in the federal Parliament at Ottawa. With a national election probable for this spring or summer, they will soon have a chance to test the appeal of giveaway government for the voters in other parts of Canada...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem today his country "reserves freedom of action in case Egyptians return to the Strip...