Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, an "Assembly of Experts" is drawing up a new constitution that will establish Iran as a theocratic state. The constitution specifies that the state will be ruled by a "just, brave, popularly accepted theologian who is abreast of the times," and who will have the power to dissolve parliament, fire the President, and nullify any legislation he feels is contrary to Islamic law. Khomeini will surely decide that he himself has the necessary qualifications...
Suzman says she does not pretend to speak for blacks, but that she has challenged every piece of apartheid legislation brought before Parliament...
Sarah Venable as Maddie, the buxom secretary to the committee who is the root of Parliament's moral problem and who seems to know every government official by his first name, is the centerpiece of the show in more than just a visual way. Stoppard starts this character out as an unembellished dumb broad, and about halfway through the show transforms her into a voice of the common people, instructing the MPs on their duties, telling them, "The people don't care about what you do on your own time--it's only the newspapers," and eventually writing the draft...
Helen Suzman, a member of the opposition party of the South African Parliament, says the "damned nerve" of Harvard students who called her a "white puppet" and demonstrated while she spoke Tudesday at the Kennedy School of Government surprises...
...year-old representative attributes her success at avoiding arrest or exile to the "moral immunity" that comes with being an elected member of Parliament. She adds that supporters of apartheid have called her the "choice of everything that is unpatriotic and anti-South African." She comments: "I get hell in Parliament, but then I expect it...I'm very provocative...