Word: parliament
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...legal framework for future waves of immigration. By 1955 the first brown and black faces appeared in Yorkshire mill towns, drawn by high wages and, ironically, a vision of colonial-era civility. In 1962, after this immigration reached a peak of nearly 90,000 a year, a worried Parliament began limiting Commonwealth entry and the influx was reduced...
...problem had already arrived. Hoping to legislate it away, Parliament in 1965 passed a race relations act that made it illegal to incite racial hatred. Broadened in 1968 and 1976, the act now bans discrimination in employment, schools and housing, and empowers a Commission for Racial Equality to investigate violations. In its first successful action, which came only last November, the CRE ordered a Birmingham restaurant to stop refusing nonwhite customers. The CRE has also acted to help individuals like Sohan Singh Saggu, a Leeds factory worker of Asian ancestry who was forced to build a 6-ft. hardboard partition...
...Charan Singh, 76, to his official residence in New Delhi, the two rivals presented lists totaling an identical number. Each claimed to have 279 supporters in the Lok Sabha (lower house), nine more than necessary to form a majority government. Even as Reddy scrutinized the conflicting claims, members of Parliament were changing allegiances behind the scene. In the end, the President chose Singh, the leader of 10 million Jats (farmers) from northern India, as his country's fifth Prime Minister...
...Kenya were worried: a new government bill threatened to restrict their right to marry as many wives as they could afford. Though polygamy would remain legal, according to legislation that was debated in Nairobi's Parliament last week, a man would be required to get permission from his first wife before marrying a second one. In addition, the new bill would make wife beating a crime...
Arguing that the proposed legislation was "very un-African," Arap Soi warned that "we are moving too far, too fast in Kenya." He need not have worried: Parliament by an overwhelming majority, shelved the bill for six months. For the time being, therefore, Kenyans may continue to slap as many wives as they can afford...