Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vanden Boeynants tried in vain for a compromise. When none could be agreed upon, Vanden Boeynants handed King Baudouin his government's resignation. His Cabinet will remain as caretaker until a new government can be patched together-a prickly task that may lead to the dissolution of Parliament and new elections...
Bachelor Trudeau drives a fast sports car, skis, skindives, holds a judo brown belt and dresses in a highly individualistic style; he was once reprimanded by ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker for wearing a sports shirt and ascot in Parliament. But he is also a widely traveled law professor and economist and -very important-a bilingual Québecois who gets along as well at the mannerly teas of the English-speaking majority as at mercurial political rallies in Quebec and Montreal. A firm opponent of separatism, Trudeau believes that the only way to discourage it is to make French...
...Parliament will be reduced from 300 to 200 members, and candidates must be either 1) native-born Greeks, or 2) citizens who have been naturalized for at least ten years, or 3) those who have held renewed Greek citizenship for at least five years after becoming citizens of foreign countries-a clause that would disqualify Leftist Andreas Papandreou from any election that might be held this year.* Banned from participation in Greek politics will be "all parties whose aims or the activity of whose members is openly or covertly opposed to the fundamental principles of the state or (designed...
Then the Flood. An end to pornography suppression was finally proposed in Parliament, and an extensive study was undertaken by the government's four-man permanent commission on criminal-law reform, made up of the nation's Ombudsman, the director of public prosecutions, a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Copenhagen and the president of the court of appeals...
With only the judge dissenting, the commission concluded that censorship should go. Last June, after a minimum of debate, the 176-man Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...