Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini airmen and armed civilians at Doshan Tappeh airbase in eastern Tehran, the army supreme command abruptly announced that it would withdraw its troops and give "full support to the wishes of the people." The army had been Bakhtiar's last prop; he resigned, as did the members of parliament...
...industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish coffee is in short supply; replacements are tea and Nescafe. At a recent session of parliament, a fistfight broke out on the floor after an opposition deputy complained that "the streets are full of black market cigarettes"−to which the Customs Minister snapped back, "You probably have some in your pockets...
Deputies in the Majlis (lower house of parliament) continued to submit their resignations. One description of Bakhtiar's government: "Little more than a telephone." On Sunday crowds sacked and burned his office...
...crisis that presaged general elections and, quite possibly, renewed political terrorism. Charging that the Christian Democrats had reneged on an agreement to consult them on important government decisions, the Communists withdrew from an alliance of major parties that had supported the one-party government of Premier Giulio Andreotti in Parliament. Without the backing of the Communist, Socialist, Republican and Social Democratic parties, Andreotti mildly told the Chamber of Deputies, he had no choice except to step down as head of a Cabinet that had lasted for a precarious ten months...
...Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Many black supporters of these leaders have already expressed their displeasure over the amount of power that the whites will retain after a new government takes office following the April elections. The whites will still hold 28 of the 100 seats in Parliament and one-quarter of the Cabinet portfolios, and will retain a strong voice over the judiciary, the civil service, the police and army for at least ten years. Though they will obviously have far less power than in the days when they ran the whole show, they will not be doing...