Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue to be selected by the government...
...enduring comforts for a Communist political boss is instant ap proval of his fiats. No sooner does he promulgate a law than a "people's parliament" affixes its rubber stamp to it. But in the new brand of Communism being pushed in Yugoslavia, things are no longer quite so comfortable. Party "guidance," not "commandism," is the order of the day, and top Communist Theoretician Edvard Kardelj not long ago went so far as to emphasize that "it is important that state organs be responsible to those who elect them...
...stunned Smole countered this dastardly democratic behavior with an old Western parliamentary trick of his own. In a denouement without precedent in the Communist world, he and his executive council resigned-on the grounds that they had lost a no-confidence vote. The Parliament hastily convened to ask Smole & Co. to stay on as a caretaker government until a new one could be elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise...
Rankovic, 56, turned out to be the head of a conspiracy, centered in the secret police, that opposed Yugoslavia's trend toward democracy and Western-style economic reforms. Tito purged the secret police; Rankovic and his fellow conspirators were ordered to stand trial before the Yugoslav Parliament. Evidence showed that Rankovic had wire taps leading back to his home and office, so he could tune in on the boss day or night, and that his agent had once taped a Politburo meeting so secret none of the participants were even allowed to take notes...
...Thomas tries with all his mental might to find some way he can promote the King's project without breaking God's law, but at last he declares he can do nothing. The famous crisis rapidly develops. Henry angrily renounces the authority of Rome, causes Parliament to pass a law constraining all his subjects under pain of death to swear fealty to the King as head of the church as well as the state. Sir Thomas, unable in all conscience to take the oath, nevertheless decides he is "not the stuff of which martyrs are made." Being...