Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting of parliament and the Central Committee, he spoke out against "interference from the outside" and observed, intriguingly, that his country "traditionally had friendly relations" with many NATO countries, some of which have "helped us in our struggle against foreign domination." He was frequently interrupted with applause and chants: "Ceauşescu, we will overcome...
Fukuda decided to drop out of the running after his second place primary showing, but he could have stayed in the race, which the Japanese Parliament will formally decide December 1. "After the primary, it seemed a foregone conclusion Fukuda would lose" in the parliamentary election, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former American ambassador to Japan, said yesterday...
...Begin was in full control of his Cabinet; others speculated that he might privately welcome some of his colleagues' truculence. At week's end, after summoning his chief Washington negotiators to Toronto for consultations, Begin made plans to fly home to discuss the state of the negotiations with his parliament...
...Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions of dollars. To angry opposition members of Parliament, the judge's ouster amounted to an attempted cover-up of Pretoria's "Watergate." In protest, they refused to accept appointments to a special bipartisan investigative body. Indeed, there is intense pressure on Botha within his own party not to suppress such evidence...
...have led to economic crisis. Norway has greatly overspent its oil revenues. Prime Minister Odvar Nordli, whose Labor Party has governed for five years, felt it necessary to submit an austerity budget for 1979 and propose a wage-and-price freeze through the end of next year; the Norwegian parliament last week approved the freeze proposal...