Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House, is adamant that the House should keep the cameras under its own supervision. Television, O'Neill and many other members sense, is too potent a presence to be allowed to graze freely amid such lush Americana. "I've talked to the Speaker of the Australian Parliament [which also televises] and the Speaker of the Canadian Parliament," says O'Neill. "They both told me: 'Don't let it out of your own control...
...Purged from their platforms is the once obligatory rhetoric calling for violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. Italian Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer has said that under his party, "the system must remain that of liberty and individual rights, representative democracy that has its center in the parliament, pluralism of parties and alternating parties in the government...
...charges of me trying to hold on to power, it isn't really a question of clinging on to leadership or prominence. I am being completely pragmatic. Whether we like it or not, there is a constitution in Rhodesia today and under that constitution the present Parliament has been elected and I am the leader of the party in power. There is nothing anybody in this world can do to change this position. Once a new constitution is brought in, I will be very happy to step down...
...referendum by Rhodesia's white voters. The proposal does, however, lay out the basic blueprint for a constitution, offering both new voting rights to the country's 6.4 million blacks and strong guarantees to its 268,000 whites. Chief among the stipulations is a new 100-seat Parliament, in which 28 seats would be reserved for whites for ten years, most to be elected under a formula that ensures domination by Smith's own Rhodesian Front Party...
...your taxes, come to me." With that crude but compelling slogan, Mogens Glistrup, Denmark's premier tax-dodge artist and maverick politician, not only made himself a millionaire but also built the country's second largest party, which now holds 26 of the 179 seats in parliament. Last week, after a 3½-year trial, a Copenhagen court found him guilty on a host of charges involving fraud and tax evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief crime: swindling the state out of more than $1 million...