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Muzorewa's party won 67% of the popular vote and 51 of the 72 seats reserved for blacks in the new 100-member Parliament. On many issues the bish op will have the support of the Rhodesian Front, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Ian Smith, which won all of the 28 seats reserved for whites. Both parties recognize the need for unity against the guer rillas of the Patriotic Front. Says a white restaurant owner in Salisbury, expressing a hope shared by many of Rhodesia's 212,000 remaining "Europeans" "The bishop is a weak...
...Jacques Chirac, with Giscard's approval. The deal was kept secret until the following year. Then it was announced as a commercial agreement between several French companies and Iraq, rather than an accord between two nations, thus allowing the arrangement to escape an acrimonious debate in the French parliament. After Chirac's resignation in 1976, Giscard "began having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France would not only be contributing to nuclear proliferation but would be blamed for intensifying tensions in the Middle East. But breaking the $350 million contract and risking Iraqi ire was unthinkable. Iraq...
...Strasbourg has received 398 complaints against the British government, more than against any other country. Unlike many other European countries, England does not recognize the European human rights convention as national law. Its own constitution is largely unwritten; there is no bill of rights set above the power of Parliament. That makes it more difficult to persuade a British court that the government has trespassed on individual rights. And it helps explain why so many Britons turn to Strasbourg for redress...
...government grows bigger in England, so does the feeling that England should formally adopt a bill of rights. The Sunday Times victory in the Thalidomide case will at least increase the pressure on Parliament to strengthen the right of free speech. But there are some characteristically British obstacles in the way of real reform. One is that Parliament is loath to give up its traditional supremacy over the courts, which would happen if judges were allowed to declare laws unconstitutional. Another is the sheer slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans...
...also between acting jobs. Thus the fiery star can be found, these pre-election days in Britain, stumping the decaying Moss Side district of industrial Manchester, red hair flowing and red rosette of the Workers Revolutionary Party flapping. Redgrave seeks to become Moss Side's Member of Parliament, but most of the voters she accosts appear more concerned about jobs and high living costs than the party's proposal for a workers' militia to replace the British bobby and its jeremiads against capitalism and the monarchy. Even for such an illustrious candidate, prospects thus appear dim; running...