Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputation as a slippery opportunist that had hurt him in the 1964 election. Instead, though operating with a bare three-seat majority, Wilson had proved to be an able statesman who could handle his own left wing, was not afraid to slap down raise-happy trade unions. In Parliament his acerbic wit and quick thrusts had continually kept the Opposition off-balance. Heath had no such advantages. He had taken over a badly divided party only eight months ago, and not entirely succeeded in closing the rifts. As a leader, he did not begin to shed his image of aloofness...
...Busy Future. The men who will swell Labor's back benches are markedly different from the hot-eyed Socialists who stormed to Parliament in the 1945 election and opened the first session with a rousing chorus of The Red Flag. The new M.P.s are young (average age: 36), drawn mainly from the professions, and generally are pragmatists like Wilson. In fact, the moderate character of the new Labor M.P.s reduced the fears that a large majority would give the party's left wing strength to force Wilson into abandoning his support of the U.S. position in Viet...
Wilson will keep Parliament busy when it convenes April 21. Zeroing in on his party's last great doctrinaire objective, Wilson intends to press for the nationalization of Britain's steel industry. Other items high on his legislative agenda: stronger machinery for controlling Britain's rising prices and wages, a reform of the featherbedding trade unions, and a drive to make British industry more productive...
...which will lead to our ultimate victory." The general's emphasis was on doing things gradually, and his plea was primarily directed toward Djakarta's restive students, who would have liked to see a bigger shake-up and who had recently begun clamoring for a cleanup of Parliament, for "social justice" and for elections...
...stick, for during the past five years Verwoerd's police and a series of suppressive laws have successfully stamped out all organized black resistance. When the results were in, the Nationalists had swept a record-breaking 60% of the vote, won 126 of the 170 seats in Parliament. The once-powerful United Party, campaigning for outright support of Rhodesia's Ian Smith, took most of the rest...