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...Cairo, Nasser's own two sons volunteered for military service, inspired not only by their father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take...
...Great Britain had formally applied for entry into the Common Market, and the tensions and expectations were high. France's five partners in the Common Market wanted Britain in, and the British were optimistic that De Gaulle would not repeat his 1963 veto. Foreign Secretary George Brown told Parliament two weeks ago: "We expect to get in." Gaullists had even been circulating the word that De Gaulle would not impose another veto...
...quite a risk, especially in the wake of February's nationwide elections, in which the Congress Party lost control of eight of India's 17 state governments and dropped 82 seats in the lower house of Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...
...Nasser forces in Yemen, is hardly eager for another confrontation with Nasser-whose air force last week bombed the Saudi town of Najran, near the Yemeni frontier, for the third time this year. The British may be getting the point. Last week British Foreign Secretary George Brown appeared in Parliament with a first hint that Britain might at least consider staying on in Aden for a while. It was still the government's intention to leave, he said, but only on condition that it "leave behind a stable and secure government in South Arabia...
Prodded by a crime rate that has sharply increased since World War II, the Labor government introduced a Criminal Justice reform bill into Parliament last fall. Tucked away among its provisions was the proposition that instead of being unanimous, criminal jury verdicts should require only a 10-to-2 majority. The proposition was surprising in almost every way, not least of all because it provoked practically no reaction from either the public or the press. It was supported by some of the highest ranking jurists in the land, notably the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker of Waddington, who argued that...