Word: parliament
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...Family planning depends on discipline," Karan Singh, India's Minister of Health and Family Planning, warned Parliament in January. "If the discipline is not self-inspired, it may have to be imposed." Last week the Indian government decided that self-discipline would not curb India's burgeoning population, which at the present birth rate will reach 1 billion by the year 2000. The government announced a plan to penalize city government employees and other residents of New Delhi who do not limit their families to two children...
...India's lower house of Parliament last week voted overwhelmingly to postpone national elections, which were due this month, for a year...
...will have democracy for all," declared Spanish Premier Carlos Arias Navarro in a nationally televised speech to Spain's Parliament. Arias was outlining a program for political change that had been anxiously awaited since the death of Dictator Francisco Franco last November. Although some of the promises in the speech sounded grand, it was clear that the "democracy" Arias spoke of would not be for all and would come very slowly...
...most important of Arias' proposed "limited modifications" in Spain's 18-year-old constitution was the creation of a second chamber of the Cortes, Spain's Parliament. This would be a popularly elected lower house that would have equal power with a largely appointed upper chamber. Arias also promised to reform the electoral law that now allows only Franco's National Movement to exist as a political party. Arias carefully avoided using the word party, but most observers interpreted his speech to mean that moderate parties and possibly even a socialist coalition would eventually be permitted...
Nerving Women. One big catch to British-style equal rights is that the new laws are not the result of a militant feminist campaign or a change in public sentiment, but rather have been lobbied through Parliament by progressive Laborites. Feminist leaders say it may take years before social attitudes catch up with the laws. The commission is also finding it difficult to nerve women for court battles over their grievances...