Word: parliament
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...Center for European Studies (CES) has invited Giorgio Napolitano, a member of the Italian Parliament and a leader of the Italian Communist Party, to speak at Harvard in an effort to increase the campus's exposure to European communism, Stanley H. Hoffmann, CES chairman and professor of Government, said yesterday...
...immediate response in parliament was to close ranks behind Andreotti's new government so as to impose a sense of stability over the troubled country. Requesting a "total commitment to assure that Italy does not fall into a spiral of insecurity and ungovernability," Andreotti asked parliament for a speedy vote of confidence. Within hours, he received by far the biggest majority ever accorded a postwar government in Italy...
Late last week Andreotti presented his new government-Italy's 40th since the collapse of Fascism in 1943-to President Giovanni Leone. The deal will take effect when he asks parliament for a formal vote of confidence this week. For the first time in 31 years on such a vote, the Communists will stand up to say Aye. All parties made it clear that the arrangement was to continue only until the presidential elections at the end of this year...
...Chief Jeremiah Chirau and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-envisions a transitional period of evolution toward majority rule during which whites (who number about 264,000 in Rhodesia's population of 7 million) would be guaranteed 28 of 100 parliamentary seats for at least ten years. The present Rhodesian Parliament, which is totally dominated by whites, would have to approve any new constitution. During an interim period, expected to begin within a matter of weeks, Smith will share executive authority with the three black leaders and will have veto power, in effect, since decisions made by the four must...
...African Congress as a splinter group from the African National Congress in 1959. Following his participation in 1960 demonstrations against the restrictive pass laws that control the lives of South African blacks, Sobukwe was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed a law empowering the government to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, and Sobukwe spent the next six years in another prison, using the time to earn an economics degree. Finally released in 1969, he was restricted to a small black township in Kimberley. He was denied permission to emigrate...