Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including some Christians, demonstrated in favor of a military draft. "Our sons are leading the way," declared a Beirut hotel manager last week. "We must get tough." In Tyre, merchants closed their shops in a one-day protest, and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Beirut sent a petition to Parliament demanding "full cooperation with the people of Palestine...
...toCzechoslovakia's disillusioned workers, students and intellectuals. An unrepentant liberal, Smrkovský lost his post as president of the National Assembly when that body was abolished to make way for the new legislature. In the new system, he temporarily holds the equivalent post of president of the federal parliament. At the behest of the Russians, the realists have started a campaign to take that post away from Smrkovský. The workers, including the 900,000 members of the metalworkers' union, have pledged to go out on strike if Smrkovský is not given the job-and thousands...
...Eudora Welty, the soft-voiced but enduring prose mistress of Mississippi, is bringing out her first novel in 15 years. Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion), who has also siphoned off much energy into intricate short stories, has finished her first novel in 17 years. Titled A Parliament of Women, it is set in the author's native Colorado, and one of the main characters will be based on her father, a redoubtable writer of westerns (under pseudonyms like Ben Delight and Jack Wonder) who died...
Principle and Pocketbook. If Kaunda fails to arouse the nation to vote his ticket overwhelmingly, he intends to eliminate other parties by parliamentary means. The President is certain, when the new Parliament meets next month, of the two-thirds majority necessary for a constitutional amendment abolishing all parties except...
VERY many people have tried to define our form of government. We have been called by some "a democracy without a Parliament." Others have defined us as a "dictatorship with democratic ideas." But the definitions are not interesting. What is interesting is that we believe that a Greek state within the framework of democracy must be developed now. In order that a democracy may exist, it must be borne by political parties. Before such permission is given, we must be certain that the citizens who will form the basic material of these parties have become mature citizens...