Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last October's Western Region parliamentary elections, the N.N.A. rather blatantly rigged the ballot boxes. Many opposition candidates were scrubbed from the ballot; key election officials were kidnaped. In the final "official" count by the Western Region's pro-North government, the N.N.A. finished with 74 of Parliament's 94 seats...
Even more impressive was last month's law, passed by a newly resilient Cortes (Parliament), giving Spanish workers the right to strike for higher pay. For nearly three decades, all strikes had been banned in Franco Spain...
...Jurists last week came a bitter indictment of justice, Burundi-style. The jurists charge that in the aftermath of last October's unsuccessful uprising by the underdog Bahutu tribe against the Watutsi monarchy, no less than 86 Bahutus, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament, were executed without even the semblance of a fair trial...
Last month eleven members of Parliament introduced a resolution charging that T.T.K. had used his office to advance the business interests of his sons. Krishnamachari appealed to Shastri to personally exonerate him of the accusation. Shastri stalled, suggesting that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ought to examine the matter. Enraged, the Finance Minister walked in for a showdown. "You are not indispensable," said Shastri. Replied Krishnamachari: "I should have quit when Nehru died...
...mostly Buddhist Ceylon last week, Sunday became just another working day. By act of Parliament, stores and government offices will henceforth close each month on four Buddhist feasts called poya days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...