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...political theater, set in Peking's cavernous Great Hall of the People. All the votes were unanimous, all the speakers loudly applauded by the 3,497 delegates. The script for last week's National People's Congress, the body that theoretically serves as China's parliament, came courtesy of the all-powerful Communist Party Central Committee. The point the Central Committee wished to drive home: 18 months after Mao's death and the subsequent arrest of the radical Gang of Four. China's leadership has consolidated, and seeks, under "the great banner of Chairman...
...same time, party conservatives imposed sharp limits on Andreotti's room to maneuver. No arrangement with the Communists could continue beyond year's end, when the Italian parliament is due to elect a new President; among other strict policy guidelines, allegiance to NATO would have to be maintained, and there could be no policemen's union affiliated with the Communist-dominated General Confederation of Labor-the rejection of a key Communist demand. Insisted Senate Whip Giuseppe Bartolomei: "The Communists must not be legitimized as a governing party, not even...
...tiers: an executive council, composed of Smith and the three blacks, and a ministerial council, whose size is still to be determined but whose membership will be evenly balanced between blacks and whites. Smith will keep his title of Prime Minister, at least for a while, but the present Parliament will be recessed and in theory Smith will be head of the country only when he is chairing the executive council, whose decisions in any case are to be "by consensus...
...American and British governments want to see if the Smith plan will work and, more important, whether it will lead to a genuine transfer to black rule. The Rhodesian whites have won several minority safeguards, including enough seats in the new Parliament to give them veto power over constitutional changes for ten years. If they also retain control over the armed forces, they could wind up as the real power in the new regime...
There was an uglier factor. In 1976 complaints of sexual indiscretions by an unnamed "Christian leader" reached the floor of Kenya's Parliament. When Carr and the All Africa Conference board complained at the Lome meeting that he had been the victim of a smear campaign, the official Voice of Kenya radio accused Carr by name...