Word: parliament
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...government of Prime Minister Verwoerd last week reduced still further the shrinking circle of liberty in South Africa. With only one dissenting vote, the South African Parliament enacted a sweeping No-Trial Bill, empowering the Minister of Justice to hold whomever he chooses incommunicado and without trial for 90 days. Under this "law," which virtually destroys the rule of law in South Africa, the Government can renew the detention period endlessly...
...Relation. The street mobs were dispersed by troops and gunfire (mostly over the rioters' heads), and by the establishment of a 22-hour curfew. Schools were shut down by the government or closed by student sit-ins. Angered when the unruly Parliament forced the resignation of his Prime Minister Samir Rifai, King Hussein dissolved it and ordered the arrest of ten pro-Nasser Deputies. As caretaker Prime Minister, during the four months before new national elections, the King picked fat, easygoing Sherif Hussein ibn Nasser, 66, who is Hussein's great-uncle, is also married to Hussein...
From a fortresslike grey stone headquarters beside the Thames near Parliament, the directors of Britain's largest nongovernment enterprise supervise an imperial giant with bases in 48 nations. Led by lean, nimble Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 59. they run their decentralized, globe-circling operation with the same easy writing-paper informality with which it was founded. That and a tigerlike lunge for new business last week enabled I.C.I, to announce 1962 sales that rose 5% to $1.6 billion and earnings that jumped 14% to $91.8 million...
...months and four in the past six years, the Canadian electorate is uneasy about the continued existence of minority governments. Last B. Pearson, Canada's new prime minister, based his campaign on the issue of stable government and responsible leadership, hoping to get a majority in the twenty-sixth Parliament. Unfortunately, Pearson received only 42 per cent of the popular vote, while the Conservatives garnered 32 per cent, the Social Credit 14, and the New Democratic Party 12. The country felt general dissatisfaction with both traditional parties and expressed it with a pluralistic vote patter...
...office for the first five of the sixty-day period during which he promised to "get Canada moving again." Although he is three members short of a majority he has been pledged the support of 41 seats now held by the New Democratic and Social Credit parties. But because Parliament does not convene until May 16, it is difficult to determine exactly what his government intends to do. The only indication so far has been the appointment of his Cabinet. In choosing his 25 Minister, Pearson has judiciously mixed members of Canada's so-called political "new guard" with those...