Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...
Spaak spent his life fighting nationalism, which to him was an evil that had divided Europe for centuries. When he resigned from the Belgian Parliament last week, Europe lost its greatest practicing internationalist...
...Flag & Tennis. Born near Brussels in 1899, Spaak was the son of a writer and director of the Brussels opera; his mother was the first woman to become a Belgian senator. He was always something of a political contradiction. Entering Parliament in 1932 as a radical Socialist, he thought nothing of spending a day waving a red flag at a Socialist demonstration, and then retiring to the tennis court or the plush comfort of Brussels' exclusive Leopold Club...
...members of his own government, a coalition of Umma and the Moslem National Union Party. With the coalition falling apart, Sadik last week decided that the time had come for him to move out of the back ground. Over the vociferous protests of his uncle, the Imam, he led Parliament in a revolt that ousted Mahgoub and elected a new Premier: Sadik el Mahdi...
Responding to a remark by El Khatib that many of the Democratcies in Europe were only superficial and that many of the "Democrats" are dangerous, Murugesu Sivasithamparam, Member of Parliament from Ceylon said, "If I am a demagogue I don't mind, Democracy must and shall prevail in Asia...