Word: parliament
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...rule by September 1978-but largely on his own terms. His plan is to bypass the guerrilla organizations, notably the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, and make a deal with black moderates. To improve the climate of negotiation, he recently pushed through Rhodesia's Parliament a bill to reduce discrimination. Under the new law, racial restrictions in hotels and restaurants are theoretically abolished, and the country's 6.2 million blacks are now allowed to buy millions of acres of prime farm land formerly reserved for the 270,000 whites. One catch: few blacks...
Since Callaghan has lost effective control of Parliament, London bookies promptly laid 4-to-5 odds on his defeat. Smart politicians, though, were betting that the avuncular Prime Minister could survive with a vote or so to spare. Since succeeding Harold Wilson a year ago, Callaghan has seen Labor's slim three-vote majority in Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with...
...DELHI, India--Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lost her seat in parliament and her ruling Congress party suffered extensive losses in early returns of the Indian national elections...
...died for the cause of Palestinian statehood. Then the delegates to the plenary session of the 178-member Palestinian National Council, which convened late last week in the Arab League's blue and green tiled headquarters in Cairo, got down to business. As the Palestinians' de facto parliament, the plenary was promising to be-as Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat had earlier described it-"one of the most important meetings in Palestinian history...
...Parliament, Industry Minister Gerald Kaufman said that British Leyland is "in danger of bleeding to death." Warned Prime Minister James Callaghan: "The biggest differential is between the man who is in a job and the man who is out of one, and some of them [the strikers] could...