Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President's only defeat of the two-day Malaysian tour came in a golf match at the hands of Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak ("I'd like a little bit of technical aid from Malaysia," quipped Hubert). During a tour of the Malaysian Parliament, the Vice President sat in the Speaker's chair and ruefully commented: "The one at home is more wobbly, in more ways than...
...deal on Israel's terms, which included face-to-face negotiations-and the terms have since been getting steadily tougher. Just how tough they have become was spelled out last week by Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. In a major policy speech before the opening session of the Knesset (parliament), Eshkol made it plain, in case anyone has recently had any doubts, that his government has decided to hold on to most of the land...
...Market entry seems as distant as ever; Charles de Gaulle has just hinted that he will veto Britain once more. No wonder Wilson was looking for a political diversion. Last week he found it in a surprising place: the House of Lords. In the Queen's Speech opening Parliament, he let it be known that he intends to reduce the powers of the peers and do away with the Lords' "hereditary basis...
...seat long so safe for Labor that the party took it by a 16,576 majority the last time around. Reversing that margin to win by 1,799 votes, Mrs. Ewing became the first member of the Scottish National Party to go to Britain's Parliament since 1945. "Now it's home rule by 1970," she said, advocating independence for Scotland inside the Commonwealth and a seat in the United Nations betwixt Saudi Arabia and Senegal...
...during the German occupation. An informer led the Nazis to the cave where he was contacting the British on the wireless. They executed him on the spot. My friend became a fervent Papandreous supporter in the late fifties, when she learned that the informer had emerged a candidate for Parliament on the Conservative ticket. He had never been brought to trial: in the name of anti-Communism, most Nazi collaborators escaped punishment in post-war Greece. In fact, Kollias, the head of the present military government, reportedly collaborated with the Germans himself...