Word: parliament
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Songs & Toasts. Charles de Gaulle has called him "the clown in a cassock." But mustard-making Dijon loves him. The city has happily elected him mayor and Deputy to Parliament for 18 years. Last week, on his 88th birthday, his desk was piled high with congratulatory messages. The band of the local infantry regiment turned up at town hall to serenade him with Burgundian drinking songs, and everyone joined in a toast-a kir, of course...
...group's moderate), became President, while Babu, whose experience in foreign affairs includes a recent trip to Peking, was named Foreign Minister. Vice President is Kassim Hanga, a bitter Zanzibari with a Russian wife, a Moscow education, and a violent hatred of the U.S. Last November, when the Parliament moved to express formal regret over President Kennedy's death, Hanga walked out in protest. Though Strongman Okello bellowed that he was the power behind the new government, it was Babu & Co. who appeared as the real threat...
...shortage that grips the nation, villagers greeted her by appearing in plain breechcloth instead of their usual sarongs and saris. When the votes were counted last week, the government candidate ran a poor third, reducing her bitterly divided Sri Lanka Freedom Party to 77 seats in the 157-member Parliament. To stay in power, the Prime Minister-who is also her own Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Information-has increasingly relied on the votes of assorted Marxists, Trotskyites and Communists...
Last season in Britain, the BBC presented a program called That Was the Week That Was, a sort of U.K. News & World Retort in which a group of bright and biting youths said what they pleased about Parliament, the Crown and current affairs. It was ragged and embarrassingly sophomoric, but it had the stamp of originality, and it became a sizable milestone in British television...
...result in a sweeping victory over the opposition. Spurred by the crisis over Cyprus, King Paul went along with Papandreou's strategy, which, after four governments in seven months, at least held out the hope of greater political stability. Last week the King appointed a caretaker Cabinet, dissolved Parliament, and scheduled new elections for Feb. 16. Would this bring Karamanlis back from Paris? Word from Athens quotes him as saying: "Greece must undergo a long and acute crisis before the people ask, if ever, for my return...