Word: parliament
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...face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly 1,000 collected outside the school to call "Good day!" and "Long life...
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...nonsense reforms soon had BOAC in the black for the first time in eight years; next month the company will announce record annual earnings of $64 million. The most remarkable thing about the remarkable turnabout is that it has brought Sir Giles brickbats instead of bouquets in Parliament...
...guards in the city refused to fire on the crowds, mutinied, and was joined next day by the Volynsky regiment. That night Czar Nicholas, who was away at his military headquarters, cabled back an order to the city's military authorities to dissolve the Duma, the elected parliament that he had created. The leaders of the Duma, among them a fiery lawyer and orator named Alexander Kerensky, defied the Czar and sat down to form a coalition provisional committee to take charge. The garrison of Petrograd backed up the Duma, and it was the commander of Petrograd, with...
Still, defense of the pound, which finances a third of the world's trade, is the first order of business. And last week Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan told Parliament that by Dec. 2, Britain will repay on schedule the remaining $871 million of a $1 billion sterling-defense loan from the International Monetary Fund...