Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong place at the wrong time. Though the workers returned to their jobs the next morning, the Provos kept up the riot for two more days and nights, throwing the city into chaos. Undermanned and overworked, the police called for army reinforcements. Stores and restaurants boarded up their windows. Parliament and Queen Juliana's Cabinet went into emergency sessions. Finally, reinforcements arrived and calm was restored...
Riding a farm protest against the city-oriented Liberal regime and Quebec's rising cost of living, the conservative Union Nationale, headed by Daniel Johnson, 51, won 55 seats in Quebec's 108-seat Parliament, compared with 51 for the Lesage Liberals, and returned to power for the first time since Lesage ended their 16-year rule...
...Parliament, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become Finland's largest party. That raised the question: What would the Russians say about their old enemies? Just about everybody in Helsinki is convinced that what the Russians told Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen was that the Social Democrats could form a Cabinet, but only if they included Finland's Red comrades...
...every turn, Mobutu has in recent months been lashing out wildly at everyone who seemed to stand in his way, and his list of assorted traitors and plotters has grown to include foreign embassies as a group, the Belgians in particular, ex-Premier Moise Tshombe and the entire Congolese Parliament. The four hanged last week had supposedly been foiled in a plot to kill Mobutu and his two top aides, Premier Leonard Mulamba and Armed Forces Commander Louis Bobozo...
Obote seemed satisfied with the slaughter. With flames from King Freddy's demolished palace still visible from downtown Kampala, he appeared before Parliament to make an official announcement. "There is nothing to regret," said Obote. "The oneness of Uganda must be assured...