Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political system. He concentrated on the army and the institutions that related to executive power. He ruled as an absolute monarch - no matter how worthy his goals - and depended on repressive measures to keep disparate forces in line while he and the technocrats proceeded with the modernization of Iran. Parliament, the press, city councils, the judiciary, trade unions, professional associations were never given a chance to develop...
...heard. My only demand is enforcement of the constitution. We would like freedom of expression and we want a government of the people by the people. That has been our message." Among his requests: the appointment, as called for by the constitution, of a five-mullah watchdog committee in parliament...
...democratization of the country and then real, free elections, will continue. Martial law is for six months, and it will end before the elections start. In the meantime, all aspects of freedom, free speech and everything, will be absolutely carried out. But democracy will take place in the parliament, as in any civilized country...
...back. This should give the government enough time to carry out the reforms. When I say it [that he is going through with the democratization and the elections], people should believe it. I have no other interest than that. Why should I care who comes into the parliament? I only care that the people be represented...
...whites in a mixed Salisbury bar, fingering the triggers of rifles, ordered blacks who sat beside them to get out. The blacks did not tarry. Rumors circulated that two young whites, after hearing of the massacre, stopped their car and shot the first black man they saw. In Parliament, a backbencher called for martial law and general mobilization, and blustered that Africa was about to see "its first race of really angry white men." Almost certainly there would be acts of vengeance by the Rhodesian armed forces, probably in the form of retaliatory raids against guerrilla camps in Zambia...