Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps too confident in his belief that he understands the complicated Nehru, but on the whole he handles him well. Last August, after Nehru made the damaging assertion in the Indian Parliament that he could see no legal basis for Western access to Berlin, Galbraith braced Nehru with documentation. The Prime Minister admitted his error, but said that he would wait to revise his estimate until after the weekend-which would have allowed the error to sink in. At that point, Galbraith suggested a tactfully worded statement modifying Nehru's Berlin judgment. The Prime Minister smiled and, with only...
...planned, but nevertheless saw it "as a logical de velopment of the revolutionary process that has continued without interruption since the Santa Maria." He prophesied that 1962 "will mark the end of Salazar." The aging (72) dictator himself last week made one of his rare appearances before Parliament to deliver a speech, but an aide had to read it for him; in moments of strain, Salazar is apt to lose his voice, and after 33 years in power, the strain was beginning to tell on the world's senior dictator...
Last week another bout of politicking was under way. Into Leopoldville at last flew the first batch of President Moise Tshombe's Katanga Deputies to the central Congolese Parliament. Landing in a United Nations plane and guaranteed U.N. protection during their stay, they arrived ostensibly in fulfillment of Tshombe's pledge made fortnight ago in his meeting at Kitona with the central government's Premier Cyrille Adoula. The pledge: to integrate secessionist Katanga province with the rest of the Congo. But it was clear from the moment the delegates left Elisabethville's airport that they were...
...pulled out of the Congo in June 1960. Because the draft looked toward a federal Congo with a strong central government, Tshombe was against it from the start; at his meeting with Adoula, he reluctantly agreed to accept its provisions, but now (on the ground that his own provincial Parliament in Katanga had still to ratify his agreement) he insisted that the delegates would try again to get the provisional constitution changed. Said he: "We still insist on a confederation...
...determined to back its stand with force. In the agreement. Tshombe had promised to send Katanga Deputies to the Congolese national Parliament by Dec. 27 to start the reunification of Katanga with the rest of the country; if Tshombe did not live up to his pledge, the U.N.'s 6,000 Indian, Ethiopian, Swedish and Irish soldiers around Elisabethville might well resume their hail of shells, rockets and machine-gun fire. When one of Tshombe's platoons last week clashed with a group of Ethiopian soldiers who occupied the big Union Minière copper refinery at nearby...