Word: parliament
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...applies to all Commonwealth countries, white and black, everyone acknowledges that it is intended to discriminate against colored immigrants. But there was little protest in Britain last week, even from M.P.s and newspaper editors who had argued against the bill when it was introduced last November in Parliament. The silence may be partly due to the surging flood of colored arrivals in the past two years, climbing from 7,100 in May 1960 to a high of 14,500 for May of this year. Colored immigrants now total 450,000, or 1% of Britain's population...
...ambassadors in major world capitals have "lost" a total of some $50,000 in embassy funds, have advised Leopoldville that the money just vanished. It is widely believed that some Cabinet ministers have secreted large sums of government money in bank accounts in Europe. Last week, when the Congolese parliament tried to censure Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko for allegedly doing just that, Bomboko surrounded the legislature with gendarmes, produced his own list of foreign money transfers, got the investigation called...
...years ago, a question was asked in all seriousness in South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town: Does apartheid on the beaches extend to the high-tide or low-tide mark? Aghast, M.P.s finally concluded that in either case Africans could wade across from black beaches into white water, spoiling it for white swimmers. The problem was finally solved by taking a precedent from international conventions; apartheid on the beaches was extended out to the three-mile limit...
Caouette was already doing most of the talking: "I see where the Conservatives say that Parliament will meet in mid-September. That's fine with us. We're in no hurry. I don't see any need for an election for some time, probably not for a year at least...
...seems certain, Parliament approves the nationalization, the government will buy the shares of publicly listed power companies for the average of their 1959-61 prices-a generous 23% above currently depressed levels. Prices for non-listed shares will be based on the valuations that the companies carried on their 1960 books. All told, the government will pay out a total of $2.4 billion...