Word: parliament
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...benefit the left. Moreover, much of the pending legislation in the Assembly was hatched while Chirac was still Premier; this blunts any credible Gaullist opposition to these measures. But the Gaullists will stay arms-length from the President from now on. They may oppose direct elections to a European parliament and object to ratifying the International Monetary Fund accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these skirmishes, the two men are, in the words of Historian Chariot, "condemned to get along." Chirac told Wierzynski, "I will...
Chirac is looking to the legislative elections now scheduled for March 1978. If his clout is decisive in blocking the left from achieving a majority in Parliament, Chirac, the strongman of the majority, will overshadow Giscard and quite possibly unseat him in the 1981 presidential election. At the very least, he has already rekindled the potent mystique of Charles de Gaulle...
...proceedings became the most drawn-out in postwar Dutch history. Menten had influential friends. His chief defense lawyer was the speaker of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament. When the controversial trial ended in 1949, Menten got off with serving only an eight-month term for having worked in uniform as a Nazi interpreter. Later, Dutch prosecutors ignored allegations by an Israeli journalist that Menten had taken part in the East Galician atrocities. Two years later, in 1951, the Dutch government also brushed aside a Polish request for Menten's extradition...
Alex L. Boraine, a fellow at the Center for International Affairs who will return to South Africa tomorrow to take up his seat in the South African parliament, yesterday called the arrest "a very ominous sign...
...attempt to cut back on Britain's social services will meet raucous opposition from left-wing Laborites in Parliament. But the leftists are not likely to gain enough support among opposing Liberals and Tories to have the spending cuts rejected. Britain does not have much choice. The pound has been in sharp decline through most of the year, dropping from $2.03 in January to $1.66 last week. Moreover, foreign debts are falling due. For example, about $1.6 billion must be paid this month on an earlier loan from the Group of Ten (industrial nations). Britain's creditors, including...