Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party leaders called a special meeting after the election and decided to try to hit at the princes by abolishing their privileges and privy purses, which cost the government $6.5 million a year. All that was needed was an amendment to the constitution, which seemed certain to carry in Parliament. "There is no doubt that these privileges and privy purses are an anachronism," said Home Minister Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan. "Do we want this country to remain set in this immobility of 1948 or go ahead...
...public with a divorcee who bore him a son while he was still wed to his first wife. Queen Elizabeth, the temporal head of the Church of England, made a concession to the more relaxed morality by deciding to give him royal permission to marry the woman. Even Parliament now eagerly delves into areas that were formerly taboo. Three weeks ago, Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults, and two weeks ago it followed that up with another bill liberalizing the grounds for abortion. Last week a government committee studying the question of lowering...
...Parliament dared to call for the welfare state's demise, for such a proposal would be political suicide in New Zealand. But something had to be done to get wool sales going again. So, after weeks of deliberation, the wool commission decided to lower its protective floor price 8?, to a more realistic 39? per lb., for the coming year. It hopes that with a bit of luck, the state will have to buy little of the next crop...
...days, he excelled at such untraditional sports as surfing and pole vaulting. Among his goals: to lure more tourists to the Tonga (Friendly) Islands and to drive out the rhinoceros beetles that threaten Tonga's coconut trees. The King must share his powers with Tonga's elected Parliament and a privy council but, unlike a lot of smaller kings, he runs his country...
Died. Konni Zilliacus, 72, maverick of the British left and longtime (1945-50, 1955-67) Member of Parliament, a World War I émigré from the U.S. who saw himself as the Labor Party's socialist conscience and was regarded by many others as a crypto-Communist, treating the House of Commons to such rabidly proSoviet, anti-American, anti-British sentiments (including attacks on Labor Leaders Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell) that in 1949 and in 1961 he was suspended from the party; of leukemia; in London...