Word: parliament
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Burke, a former member of the Irish Parliament, is in the U.S. for one week to meet with government officials and members of the academic community
...week's end Sadat gave a tough speech before the Egyptian parliament, in which he emphasized that the peace talks had collapsed because Israel refused to express its willingness to withdraw from Arab territory. Sadat acknowledged that the Israeli people had shown "in the most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that...
...King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation from Jerusalem and summoned the Egyptian parliament into special session...
...this time he was forced to wait at the checkpoint for an hour and then was told that his visit was "undesirable." Although the Bonn government protested that the East German action was in violation of three treaties, border guards then prevented two other West German members of Parliament from entering the East. At the same time, many motorists seeking to drive into West Berlin via the East German Autobahn were being halted and subjected to searches by Communist police. The political forecast was for one of the sharpest freezes in relations between East and West Germany since...
...that, Great Britain last week found itself haled before the European Court of Human Rights, voluntarily joined by Britain in 1950. Her Majesty's government was accused of tolerating "degrading punishment." Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws. But after he was birched three strokes in 1972 for beating up a school prefect who had snitched on him, a 15-year-old Manx boy named Anthony Tyrer made an international case...