Word: parliament
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Died. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 64, younger daughter of Britain's World War I Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, who inherited his passionate attachment to the underdog, serving in Parliament for 31 years, first as a reform-minded Liberal M.P. from North Wales, then in 1955 bolting her father's party, which she felt was too right-wing, to become a Labor M.P.; of cancer; in Criccieth, Wales...
...nurse during World War II when the Nazis took over the paper; after the war, she started her column, which soon became one of the most popular in Greece. A conservative who likes to needle the left, she once made fun of a prominent pro-Communist Deputy in Parliament who loves the good life enough to own a house, a yacht in Athens and an apartment in Paris. When she suggested in a subsequent column that the Deputy did not even believe in Communism, he angrily threatened to sue, and other left-wingers cheered him on. Said the columnist...
...last time around was 1963. Now the backlog has built up once again. What's more, June 2 is the 20th anniversary of the end of the monarchy-a proper time for celebration-and June 12 is the date for municipal elections. Members of Parliament, almost to a man, figure that if all the smalltime offenders get out in time to celebrate, they will remember ten days later when they vote. So Parliament is prepared to pass a bill that proclaims amnesty for first offenders who have committed offenses punishable, generally, by less than three years in prison. Excluded...
First he called Parliament into emergency session, rammed through a constitutional amendment forcing the rebels to resign their seats and run for office again, this time against KANU's powerful opposition instead of with its support. Then, before a mass rally in Nairobi last week, he produced four former Mau Mau leaders who told the shocked crowd that Odinga had offered them nearly $500,000 to return to the forests to fight Kenyatta. "If you play around with me," warned the Mzee, "you'll be playing around with a lion." So saying, he reshuffled his Cabinet, putting...
...slightest flicker of emotion when even the most harrowing details were being discussed?" The all-male jury deliberated two hours and 22 minutes before returning with verdicts that demanded the maximum sentence. Britain's historical maximum penalty-death by hanging -had been abolished by Parliament during the time Brady and Myra Hindley were in prison awaiting trial...