Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antigovernment protest at its most verbose. In Danang, the English-language placards read: "Down With the American Conspiracy of Hindering the Summoning of a Constitutional Parliament. To Hinder the Summoning of Parliament Is to Intervent in the Viet Nam's Own Affairs." In Hue, the ancient Buddhist center 50 miles north west of Danang, 400 students took over the radio station for two days, broadcasting speeches and communiques denouncing the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and punctuating the polemics with, of all things, John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...military regime coexist with an elected Parliament? Four months ago, when General Joseph Mobutu overthrew the Congo's perennially squabbling civilian government, he gave coexistence a try. Announcing that the nation would be under military rule for five years, Mobutu nevertheless allowed Parliament to stay open to approve his decrees and constitutional amendments...
...worthy enough experiment, but it never got off the ground. Parliament immediately went into a long recess, and when it finally reconvened last month, an angry Mobutu all but put it out of business...
What most annoyed Mobutu, though, was something much more direct: "It has been said that Parliament will annul the ordinances that I have decreed since November. Therefore I am forced to take the decision not to permit Parliament to discuss either the laws I have passed or the laws I shall pass in the future." Last week, as good as his word, Mobutu stripped the legislators of everything but their salaries-and the occasional right of rubber-stamping his constitutional amendments. And, as he had warned, unless they stopped their political intrigues, he could close Parliament altogether. "This," said Mobutu...
...Tinted Steam." "Indistinctness is my forte," Turner declared while whirling his images into vortexes of color. On occasion, nature vied with his vision. When he was 59, London's Houses of Parliament were gutted by fire. Turner, who rarely used more than a pencil to sketch out-of-doors, rushed to the bank of the Thames to brush out nine water-colors of the burning buildings (see opposite). He even blotted his copybook pages against each other in his eagerness to capture that dramatic scene. A romantic's delirium, it was the apocalypse brought to reality-the flames...