Word: parliament
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...dispatched aides around the globe to tell his allies of new and faster military pullbacks - moves that would ring down the curtain on Britain as a major armed power of the world. Unless the plans are modified in last-minute Cabinet debate before he submits the new budget to Parliament this week, all but token numbers of Britain's military, the builder of its empire and binder of its commonwealth, will pull back into the confines of Europe within 36 months...
Died. Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, 69, longtime South African statesman; after a series of strokes; in Cape Town. As Minister of Interior from 1948 to 1958, Donges pushed through South Africa's Parliament the harsh dogmas of apartheid-absolute racial partition, mandatory identification papers for all blacks, no mixed marriages, and no voting rights for persons of mixed blood-then, as Finance Minister from 1958 to 1966, bent himself to the more creditable task of successfully building a vigorous, stable economy for his gold-rich country. His real ambition was to be Prime Minister, but he finally...
...people for political restraint during "a year of intensive activity preparatory to the return to civilian rule." It may take that long for a planned National Constituent Assembly to approve a draft constitution, which now calls for a division of power among a president, prime minister and parliament. The council would then permit political parties, but plans to bar about 1,000 former Nkrumah aides from holding public office for ten years...
...wife and four children at their home in an Athens suburb for Christmas. The fifteen officers convicted in the 1965 Aspida conspiracy, which allegedly sought to depose the King and establish a neutralist socialist regime, were also released, as well as nineteen former members of the now disbanded Greek Parliament...
...including, perhaps, the restoration of a fee for prescription drugs, long a Labor shibboleth. In a mood of defiance, 30 Laborites fired off a warning "making it clear that we do not think it is necessary to cut social services." This attitude practically guarantees a rough winter ahead in Parliament...