Word: parliament
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...have a legal government in office and Amin is now the rebel," Lule told thousands gathered at the steps of the newly opened parliament building...
...elections will pick the first black-majority Parliament in Rhodesian history. Whites, however, will retain significant constitutional and military control in the government, observers...
KAMPALA, Uganda--Thousands of Ugandans rallied in front of the Ugandan Parliament yesterday to celebrate the fall of Idi Amin, the country's defeated dictator. Looters, including some members of the Tanzanian army, joined Kampalans in the continued plunder of shops, offices and residences in the capital city...
...Germany's Christian Democratic Union in Kiel. First the politicians routinely re-elected Helmut Kohl party chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's elections. After that, to stir support for C.D.U. candidates in upcoming European Parliament elections, a novel buffet of dishes from other European Community nations: smoked salmon from Denmark, Netherlands herring, Italian wine and, Gott im Himmel, the French dish-or dishes-three dancers who pranced about onstage wearing only G strings and nonaligned ostrich feathers. Kohl diplomatically said nothing about the surprise entree...
...country's small but influential Republican Party; of a stroke; in Rome. Active in the anti-Fascist resistance during World War II, the Sicilian-born La Malfa established himself as a champion of lean, efficient government and unfettered private enterprise while serving in seven governments and every parliament since 1946. Sometimes called the Ugocentric for his strong individuality, he was also nicknamed Cassandra for his pessimism. But he was perhaps best known as the Conscience of Italy for his personal integrity and his not always popular insistence that Italians must work harder, pay more taxes and live within their...