Word: parliament
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...time it also seemed that it would be a title without sequel. Turned out of Parliament by his home town of Tours, Debré got back into official Paris only when De Gaulle let him run for Deputy from the tiny, safe, Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Debre finally was given his comeback chance last month when De Gaulle bounced Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, his hand-picked and once favored architect of austerity. Debre got Giscard's job, expanded into a kind of superministry over much of the French Cabinet's domestic activities...
...polls on March 6, they could give the politicians a still bigger surprise by upsetting the coalition balance. Last month the Austrian Communist Party for the first time urged its 100,000 supporters to vote Socialist. Their votes could give the Socialists a majority in the 165-member Parliament (the Socialists now have 76 seats to the conservatives' 81), but in practice the People's Party is far more likely to benefit. Austrians are well aware of how much bluer the Danube is on their side of the Iron Curtain. Making the most of their fears, Klaus...
...They had elections in Ghana just before I left which were hailed as the greatest development in democracy since the beginning of time. And so they were," he noted, "because every member of parliament ran completely unopposed...
...Guessing Game. In London last week, Parliament was considering a new companies bill introduced by Board of Trade President Douglas Jay. If passed as expected, the bill will require British firms to disclose a host of once sacred details about their financial dealings...
Helou seems far from finished. Next on his lengthy list are top men in the government ministries, the customs, the police and the military. He may even take on the faction-ridden, absentee-prone Parliament itself, whose members spend much of their time lobbying to place themselves or friends in key civil service slots. Remarked one member of Parliament last week, more (at this stage) in wonder than in rage: "The tame man we elected has turned into a tiger...