Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room to move around in; and in the past few weeks two major events have combined to cramp his person and style badly. Two weeks ago it looked like political events in France were just going to follow their normal pattern: the President was going to overthrow Parliament and radically alter the Constitution. And he did both--but the results of his actions left de Gaulle in an ambiguous situation, in a world far removed from one ruled by the simple alternatives of "oui" and "non" which he favors...
...pity for de Gaulle he didn't wait till after the referendum of last Sunday before dissolving Parliament and demanding the nation give him a less cantankerous and independent one--if such a thing can be imagined. For de Gaulle's relatively poor showing in the referendum may mean the coming election will turn out far more unpleasantly than, even on Saturday night, de Gaulle could have guessed. (Although de Gaulle received 61 per cent of the yes-no votes, the figure represented falls to 46 per cent when abstentions are counted--the first time he has fallen below...
...Flemings now have the numerical edge-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-a majority in Parliament, a Flemish Prime Minister and, thanks to a postwar inflow of U.S. firms to capitalize on Flanders' cheap, ample labor, a glossy sheen of wellbeing. Wallonia, meanwhile, is practically a depressed area, dotted with played-out coal mines and plagued with rising unemployment. But the Flemings still see all sorts of injustices, complain, for instance, that they have only 13 of Belgium's 83 diplomatic jobs abroad. While Brussels is officially bilingual from its street signs down to its liquor labels...
Decisive Break. Responsible for the change was Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni, a longtime fellow traveler who split with the Reds in Parliament after Nikita Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin in 1956. But the split was far from committing his entire party. Last week at a three-day meeting of the Socialist Party's Central Committee Nenni proposed to make the break decisive. He offered to open negotiations with the government for a five-year joint legislative program which, if the Fanfani government buys it, will probably bring the Socialists into the government after next spring...
...Ottawa, a member of Parliament demanded to know whether the government should not make an investigation of its own. in view of the fact that the National Gallery had so deeply committed itself to the Chrysler exhibit. At the gallery, goateed Director Charles Comfort sought what comfort he could in denouncing the American charges and in celebrating Ottawa's sudden new interest in art. Said he bravely: "We expect we will have even bigger crowds. This is the best publicity we could possibly...