Word: parliament
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...Israel, voters choose parties rather than individual candidates for the 120 seats in the Knesset, or Parliament. The seats are then apportioned among the 16 contending parties according to percentages of the total vote. The results were about what had been expected. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Labor Party collected the largest number of seats. With a slow count still incomplete at week's end, the projection was 56 or possibly 57 seats. With five votes from two Arab parties aligned with Labor, she will have a majority of one or two-just below the three-vote margin...
...viewpoint of President Georges Pompidou, Rocard's election may even prove a blessing. Four former Gaullist Ministers have won by-elections in recent weeks and will be around to complain whenever Pompidou proposes any changes in the general's policies. Had Couve gained a seat in Parliament as well, he undoubtedly would have assumed leadership of De Gaulle's loyalist wing and shaped it into a strong opposition force...
...commerce and communications, have kept the ethnic conglomerate intact for 26 years by means of a scrupulously observed gentleman's agreement. It provides that the President of the republic-currently Charles Helou-should always be a Maronite Catholic, the Premier a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Moslem. Parliament is apportioned on a 6-to-5 ratio favoring Christians, as are the army and the civil service. From time to time, the system has come close to collapse. Until last week, its severest test occurred in 1958, when strife between the sects led President Eisenhower...
...less severe trustbusting, if any at all. Die Welt of Hamburg voiced suspicion that the U.S. market is a closed shop to Europe. In Britain, which has never refused a U.S. oil company's application to enter its markets, the reaction was especially bitter. Some members of Parliament hinted at retaliation against U.S. business in Britain. Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart protested to Secretary of State William Rogers...
Electric Complaints. Everyone knows, of course, that politics and pulchritude don't mix. Everyone that is, except Pucci, who combines them as neatly as he does his colors and patterns. He is a member of the Italian Parliament in the minority Liberal (meaning conservative) Party. At his Palazzo Pucci on Via Pucci in downtown Florence, he spends hours a day sorting through stacks of mail from the worlds of both fashion and politics. "One letter may be a request for an interview as a fashion designer," he says. "The next letter is from a constituent who complains about...