Word: parliament
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...AVIV--After Israel's parliamentary elections yesterday, Israeli televsion broadcasters predicted the Labor Party would lose substantial support in the Israeli parliament to the right-wing Likud Party...
...Paisley and his "loyalists" in the United Unionist Action Council called a general strike, Northern Ireland's first in three years, to force the British to renew tough search-and-destroy operations against the terrorists in the Catholic districts and reinstate the majority-rule (meaning Protestant-dominated) provincial Parliament in Belfast. The earlier strike had led to the fall of the provincial government and caused Britain to impose direct rule. This time, however, it was a different story. At week's end it seemed clear that the strike had failed utterly to obtain its goals. The vainglorious...
...last week's national elections in Indonesia - following a tense campaign in which a dozen were killed and hundreds were arrested - went off with remarkable smoothness. Almost all of Indonesia's 70 million eligible voters trooped uneventffully to the polls to elect 360 members of a new parliament - in addition to 100 members appointed by President Suharto.* At week's end, the ballots were still being counted, but Suharto's military-backed Golkar, a "functional group" of professionals and bureaucrats, had apparently won about 62% of the vote and at least 236 seats...
...Dickens era is well begun with this production of Hard Times, which is as spare as The Pallisers is lush. Whether PBS intended it or not, the two series are ideal companions. Trollope wrote of power struggles in Parliament and of intrigue under the topiary at the country house of the Duke of Omnium. In Hard Times Dickens explained what life was like for those who could only peer through the gates-and how much misery it cost to maintain those ducal shrubs in such well-shaved elegance...
...Citing "unfavorable political developments in southern Africa," the government of Prime Minister John Vorster last month an nounced a tough new budget, with $640 million in new taxes (out of $8.9 bil lion) and record-breaking defense costs. A White Paper on defense, issued during the current session of parliament, calls for an expansion of the armed forces, an extension of the draft for white males (from one year to two), and voluntary recruitment of white women and black men. The need, concludes the report, is for a "total national defense strategy, because South Africa is at war, whether...