Word: parliament
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...told, it was a bad week for officeholders. Only 16 members of the current Parliament managed to get themselves reelected, and among the losers were nine ranking party officials, including Finance Minister Paul Bomani, who had invoked the wrath of the electorate by raising income taxes. One of the biggest winners: hard-working Health Minister Derek Bryceson, the only white in Nyerere's Cabinet, who carried his Dar es Salaam district by a resounding 30,000 votes...
Nyerere himself ran unopposed for his second term as President, but 107 seats of Parliament were also at stake last week. Rather than go through the farce of running a single slate, TANU had put up two candidates for every seat except those held by six top party officials. TANU gave each opponent equal support, paired them off in daily joint appearances and assigned three referees to supervise each match. Then the party stood aside and let the candidates fight...
...responds favorably only to the chorale from Beethoven's Ninth, so when Ringo is trapped with Roger, Lennon yells, "Ringo, sing famous Beethoven's famous Ninth Symphony." Bond's deadly Aston-Martin becomes a Mr. Whippy truck that leaves a trail of thumbtacks, and Alligator's camouflaged House of Parliament--a parody of a parody--becomes the Kaili's sacrificial temple, brought from the Orient to Bermuda...
...Athens' Constitution Square, the scene was much as it often had been during the hot, tense summer. Burly young demonstrators chanted "Papandreou" and "Traitors!" at Deputies emerging from the Parliament building, where scores of them had just deserted former Premier George Papandreou to vote for a rival Premier. If the demonstration seemed angrier than ever, it was because after ten weeks of crisis, Parliament had at last voted its confidence in a leader nominated by young King Constantine...
...year-old bachelor, had turned the trick when he swore in as members of his new "coalition" Cabinet loannis Glavanis and Isador Mavri-doglou, two of the latest defectors from Papandreou's onetime majority party, the Center Union. They brought Stephanopoulos' total support in the 300-man Parliament to a slender majority ,pl 152. Before and during the noisy debate that led up to the final vote, Papandreou's men in Parliament were reduced to chanting insults and spreading the rumor that one of the defectors had died...