Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admission to Europe would mean "the end of the Commonwealth and 1,000 years of history." Gaitskell's call to arms was partly offset by a Europe-minded group of Laborites who claimed the support of 80 Socialist M.P.s-almost one-third of the party's membership in Parliament. Almost unanimously, the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) also ranged itself behind the bidding in Brussels...
More than 5,000,000 Algerians last week voted for their nation's first Parliament. In the big coastal cities, a few of the 200,000 Europeans still remaining in Algeria lined up with turbaned Arabs. In the rugged Aurès Mountains, blond and blue-eyed Berbers gathered at the polling places. In the Sahara, "the veiled men in blue" of the Tuareg tribes and the secretive Mozabites cast their ballots beneath the feathery palms of remote oases...
...only a matter of time before the unemployed Deputies were clamoring to get back in. Fortnight ago, President Nazem El-Koudsi and veteran politician Khaled El-Azm, a nimble opportunist who has served as Premier four times since 1941, boldly called the dissolved Parliament back into session...
...their regular chamber by the army, the Deputies assembled on rows of wicker chairs in El-Azm's rambling Damascus mansion, voted to restore the liberal 1950 constitution with a few amendments. Their 156-10-1 choice for Premier was big (6 ft.), bespectacled El-Azm. Convinced that Parliament would steer an even course, the army quietly assented to the changes...
Young Malcolm was levied two quid For the terrible thing that he did, But one M.P.'s quibble Was "What's good for Dame Sybil Must be good for each Sark invalid." Dame Sybil disdained his appeals, Only she could have motorized wheels. Her parliament said Sure To her droit du seigneur, No matter how other folk feels. ∙∙∙ With classic British nonchalance. Actor James Mason, 53. and his estranged wife Pamela, 44, launched a laconic legal battle in a Santa Monica court to divvy up the spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance...