Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, Lord Russell, 89, walked into London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court accompanied by Lady Russell, 61, and three dozen fellow members of Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, which advocates unilateral Western dis armament. Together, they stood charged* of planning a giant sitdown demonstration in Parliament Square, of "inciting members of the public" to attend even after the Ministry of Works declined permission for the rally, and of being "likely to persist in such unlawful conduct." Asked the court clerk: "Are any of you willing to be bound over to be of good behavior and keep...
Soviet nuclear tests produced an unexpected fallout over Norway last week, costing the Communist Party's representative his lone seat in the Storting (Parliament). After the votes were counted in the country's quadrennial election, Red Deputy Emil Lovlien exploded: "I have been bombed out of the Storting by Mr. Khrushchev...
...welding of temple and state, voted as a constitutional amendment by a joint session of Parliament, was the fulfillment of a campaign pledge that U Nu made 22 months ago to Burma's 20 million people, 85% of whom are Buddhist. It was bitterly opposed by religious minority groups-Moslems, the Animist Kachins, the Christian Chins-and by Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows...
Unlike many neutrals, Burma takes a hard stand against Communism, which it has been fighting since gaining independence from Great Britain in 1948. The Communists, who in 1956 controlled 46 seats in Parliament, lost them all when U Nu swept back to power last year. The army has all but eliminated the roving Communist white-flag bands that once terrorized the countryside (along with insurgents of all political leanings, whose numbers have been cut from 31,000 in 1954 to an estimated 7,000 today...
...Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak and divided; the timing of the elections is felicitous for Verwoerd...