Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar delayed plans to present his cabinet to Parliament until Thursday, while a key general reportedly walked out of the cabinet, and government officials were said to have tried to block Bakhtiar ministers from their offices...
...Shah will await a vote of confidence from the Parliament Saturday before possibly departing on a trip abroad, sources in Iran said. According to the sources, the Shah will appoint a regency council to exercise power in his absence...
...pure soap opera, and India's most accomplished tearjerker was relishing her leading role. After Indira Gandhi's colleagues in the 542-member lower house of the Indian Parliament wound up a rancorous two-week debate by voting overwhelmingly to expel her and send her to jail for contempt, the graying former Prime Minister, 61, declared that "I would rather be arrested here and now and not in the dead of night at my house." Then she clambered onto a table and waited for the police. Before they led Mrs. Gandhi off to Delhi's Tihar jail...
Desai, 82, had no desire to help Gandhi wrap herself in martyr's robes. But Janata hardliners, stung by Gandhi's barb that the proceedings were "like a medieval star chamber," balked at Desai's plan of suspending her from Parliament until she publicly apologized for the 1975 offense. Snapped Janata Member Kanwar Lal Gupta: "Indira-ji has put 150,000 people in jail. Can't she spend three days there herself?" The vote to condemn...
Church-state unanimity runs deeper than doctrine. The liberal Johannesburg Sunday Times this year published a major expose on the Broederbond, the secret clan of 12,000 leading Afrikaners sworn to uphold apartheid and considered to be more powerful than Parliament. The Sunday Times reported that 750 Afrikaner ministers, fully 40% of the clergy, were Broederbond members...