Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nkrumah's cleanup is only a cover-up for Ghana's woes. Paced by left-wing extremists, Ghana is racing toward dictatorship and bankruptcy. Opposition to the regime has become explosive. Last week bomb blasts shattered Osagyefo's 1½ times life-size statue outside Parliament...
...anguished outcries over his policies, Nkrumah replied with dictatorial harshness. He ended a wave of strikes against spiraling prices and compulsory savings by clapping strike leaders in jail for daring to criticize him. Last week the tame Ghanaian Parliament-which now has only nine opposition Deputies out of 114 members-passed a bill setting up kangaroo courts, where Nkrumah-appointed judges in secret trials can deal out no-appeal death sentences for political offenses. Some 370 Nkrumah opponents are already in jail under another law by which a man can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Ghanaians have been urged...
...quandary, its politics confused and its economy in worsening shape. The new parliamentary system, installed to limit the powers of Quadros' demagogic successor, Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, has limited the government's ability to govern. Laws go unpassed because there are rarely enough members of Parliament on hand to form a quorum. Both Goulart and his Prime Minister, who is supposed to hold administrative power, issue decrees as the mood suits them...
...Liberal Party in England these days is pretty much a family affair. Mark Bonham-Carter, who lost his seat in Parliament by 2,000 votes in the last General Election, is a member of that dwindling family...
...Common Market and lost my seat in a rural district [Torrington] to a Conservative claiming that the Market would be the ruin of the farmer." (He hopes that Britain's acceptance into the EEC would be a great advantage in his campaign to regain his seat in Parliament...