Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exiles who have been held on Aegean islands may be brought home, and some government employees ousted by the regime will get their jobs back. Papadopoulos seemed not to notice one irony: the press conference revealing all these freedoms was held in the now vacant Senate chamber of the Parliament building in Athens. One freedom that the birthplace of democracy has not recovered is a democratic assembly...
...with understatement about his grandfather. Winston, he says, "suffered from being put down as Sir Randolph's boy. He had to carve out his own little niche. It wasn't so little." Churchill is certain his own niche also will be carved in politics. He ran for Parliament in 1967, lost narrowly, intends to try again. He, too, sees a certain compatibility between politics and journalism. "An M.P. has to be well informed," he says, "and journalism is one of the best ways of informing oneself." Journalism is also, as Winston Spencer Churchill well knows, a handy...
...fifths of Pakistan's 125 million people are illiterate. Still, Ayub was now prepared to clear the way for a parliamentary system of the sort that governed Pakistan before his takeover in 1958. He urged his guests to put off their demands for other reforms until a new Parliament could be elected...
...into Retirement. Recently, Parliament passed a measure that actively encourages the formation of more such ministries. Previously, an elderly vicar could hang on to his parish even if no one ever attended his services. Now he can be compelled to join a group ministry or be packed off into retirement. The pastoral measure also establishes a ten-man advisory board to determine what churches should be demolished, preserved or put to some other use. Even this new concern, however, has not entirely erased the melancholy over the decay of England's country churches. "An empty country church," says...
...mediate. The union leaders seemed to be adamant about scrapping the "penalty clauses" and asked for additional pay increases. At week's end, negotiations had produced proposals acceptable to three of the unions, the company and the government-a development that could end the strike quickly. In Parliament, Mrs. Castle said: "Some industries are getting near anarchy today." British Ford's negotiators confessed that they felt like characters in Alice in Wonderland. They could hardly overstate the absurdity of bargaining with scores of union leaders who do not have to consult their membership either before or after...