Word: parliament
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...great military parade and Boer festival celebrating the fifth anniversary of South Africa's resignation from the Commonwealth. In Cape Town, Parliament droned on in the third week of its new session, as Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd sat, chin in palm, in his green leather seat on the government's front bench...
...surprising victory in the World Court's decision not to interfere with its mandate over South West Africa, and so delirious was the response that special thanksgiving services were held in churches throughout the land. Proclaimed President Charles ("Blackie") Swart at the opening session of Parliament: "In contrast with most countries of the world, South Africa is blessed with racial peace...
...Parliament's last session before the summer recess, and the hands on the House clock were moving close to 10 p.m., the hour for the final vote on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's drastic bill to freeze wages and prices. Wilson knew that he would win. But he also knew that some two dozen left-wing Laborites were certain to abstain in protest against his tactics in steamrollering the bill through Commons...
Reduced Majority. Wilson's tactics brought bitter resentment in Parliament. As a maneuver to speed the passage of a wage-price freeze, Wilson attached the measure as a rider to an earlier bill that had already been debated in Commons. The effect was to bar debate there on the substance of Wilson's measure-which of course brought an angry outcry from the opposition Tories. Conservative Leader Ted Heath rose in the House to remind Wilson that, during last year's election campaign, the Prime Minister himself had described a wage freeze as "monstrously unfair" and "repugnant...
Britain's steel industry faces nationalization for the second time. The bill now in Parliament, which would buy out the 14 major private steel firms for $1.358 billion, is designed as much to demonstrate that the Labor Party still has some socialist beliefs as to modernize the industry. That nationalization will reform British steel is doubtful, but private industry has done little in the 13 years since steel was denationalized, and few would disagree with the Observer that "British steel is a mess." Now, even in the British domestic market, imported pig iron, at $53.20 a ton, undersells...