Word: parliament
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South Viet Nam's malleable Parliament had set the stage for Huong's removalby claiming that his economic and anticorruption policies were ineffective. To be sure, Huong was an indifferent administrator, a homey type who grows roses and readily admits: "I have never been a revolutionary." Moreover, he is aging (66) and ailing (asthma, rheumatism). Huong's personal shortcomings were not, however, what brought about his dismissal. Thieu, who had not bothered to consult his Premier about major issues for months, apparently wanted a man in whom he had complete confidence to help him through the next...
...mistress at the resort of Mayerling in 1889. The royal family did its best to hush up the scandal, but rumors rocked the empire and speeded up the pace of its dissolution. Home rule seemed all but assured for Ireland until the chief advocate in Britain's Parliament, Charles Parnell, was haled into court as a corespondent in a divorce case. Because of his affair with Kitty O'Shea, which outraged Irish Catholics and British Nonconformists alike, Parnell was ruined and home rule was set back for more than 30 years...
Halfway House. Appearing on television, Chichester-Clark denounced "sinister elements - anarchists and others" for starting the fighting. Two days later, voicing the deep Protestant suspicion that any British help would lead to a loss of majority control, he warned Parliament: "Those who cry so loudly for British intervention see it as a halfway house to the long-sought goal of an Irish Republic...
...with Kikuyu, and survivors said that they were traveling to or from Kenyatta's home. Thirteen passengers were killed, 105 injured. The presence of so many Kikuyu on the road to the President's house raised suspicions that the tribe was engaged in a clandestine operation. In Parliament, members of Leader Oginga Odinga's opposition party charged that the Kikuyu were engaged in oath taking on the grounds of the President's residence. When a government spokesman denied such ceremonies, claiming that they were simple expressions of loyalty to Kenyatta, there were cries of "Shame! Shame...
Kaunda will probably cope with the flight of white judges either by recruiting black ones from the Caribbean or by lowering qualifications for black Zambians. In any event, his United National Independence Party, which controls more than two-thirds of Parliament, could take advantage of the crisis to create a new judiciary that is more attuned to the country's politics...