Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the National Radical Union, Panayotis Kanellopoulos. Both agreed to back a caretaker government that would carry the country through elections to be held late in May. But the Center Union Party sponsored a motion that would have assured Andreas his parliamentary immunity between the time when Parliament adjourned and the planned elections. The National Radical Union, unwilling to protect Andreas, backed out of the coalition. This time the King asked Kanellopoulos to form a government, touching off the upheaval that has led straight to the military takeover...
...Athens. "This will be a constitutional deviation, a royal dictatorship," Papandreou predicted. "We have only one answer: a people's revolution." To this the King replied: "If Papandreou starts a revolution, I will start the counter-revolution." Unable to get enough votes to form a government, Kanellopoulos dissolved Parliament, set the elections for May 28?and thus, wittingly or unwittingly, cleared the stage for last week's coup...
...grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt at all to prevent discrimination in jobs and housing, which are the real...
With the Race Relations Board expected to announce similar findings this week, the Labor government is under increasing pressure to press for better antidiscrimination legislation. The chances that it can do so successfully are not good. In the past ten years, Parliament has thrown out at least ten bills to control discrimination-and the mood has not changed. Two months ago, when the government called union lead ers together to sound them out on fair employment laws, most of them boycotted the conference entirely...
Liberal interpreters insist that autopsies can save lives by contributing to medical knowledge. In 1953 Israel's Parliament passed a law authorizing an autopsy when three doctors certify that it is necessary to determine the exact cause of death or for the treatment of another person. Orthodox extremists, who opposed the law in the first place, have been enraged, along with many other Jews, by charges that doctors are conducting widespread post-mortems for pathological research...