Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From Building. Purged also was Minister of the Interior General Alevi Moghadan, 57; last week eight Majlis Deputies broke all the windows of his home in their rage over the fact that after they had paid the customary fee to General Moghadan to win election, Parliament had been dissolved before they had a chance to recoup their investment...
...striking teachers menacingly massed in front of the Parliament building in Teheran fortnight ago, the Shah personally cautioned his tough police to proceed gently. "One martyred student or teacher is all the Communists require to start a revolution," he said gloomily-a tacit admission of the explosive state of his nation. But in the scuffling down on Parliament square a police major lost his head, pulled his revolver, killed one teacher and wounded three others. There was no revolution. Yet students and teachers rioted bloodily in Teheran, fought hand-to-hand skirmishes with police, paraded the dead...
...life left in the economic and financial agencies of the government," he declared. To the striking teachers, he confessed: "The treasury is empty, and the nation faces a crisis-I dare not speak more openly lest I create a panic." Then he went to the Shah, had Parliament dissolved, and got power to rule by decree. Teheranis demonstrated joyously and danced in the streets...
Last week Duvalier called the citizens of his impoverished Negro nation to the polls, ostensibly to choose a new Parliament. Duvalier, like all strongmen, thought Parliament talkative, unfriendly and obstructionist (he eviled five members, jailed five others). Then he dissolved both houses and decreed the election of a single, 58-seat chamber. The only candidates who managed to get on the ballots were well-known Duvalier partisans. Only one candidate came out swinging against the regime, and he withdrew for "personal reasons" on election eve. Voting-day squads of police spread a dragnet for anti-Duvalier Haitians, most of whom...
...strongman did not run officially, but the words "Doctor François Duvalier-President" appeared on every ballot throughout the republic. After it was all over, Haitians learned to their surprise that they had not only elected a new Parliament but-announced Haiti's attorney general-had also voted Duvalier a second six-year term as President...