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Last week Suárez began his riskiest high-wire venture yet by submitting a long-awaited political reform bill to the 561-member Cortes (parliament), still a conservative bastion. The measure would go a long way toward turning Spain into a parliamentary democracy. The Cortes-in which less than one-fifth of the deputies are popularly elected -would be replaced by a two-house legislature. One would be a popularly elected lower chamber of 350 seats, allotted on a proportional basis, and the other an upper house representing Spain's 51 provinces that would have 244 members...
...whether or not to request independence, Matanzima rounded up 26 opposition leaders so they could not mobilize support against this sham of a vote. According to this month's Africa magazine, 57 high school students were jailed recently for protesting independence. And the Transkei's first independent bunga, or parliament, will be staffed by 150 members--75 were appointed by Pretoria. Of the elected half, 74 of the 75 have opposed independence...
...will it soon reappear. Late this month Parliament will meet in special session to consider an elaborate revision of the Indian constitution. The effect of the proposed amendment bill-certain to be passed because of the ruling Congress Party's huge majorities in Parliament and the state legislatures-will be to enhance the already vast powers of the executive and to reduce those of the judiciary. The Supreme Court will lose its right to question legislation on any but procedural grounds...
...eleven years ago and Smith had started to train black successors back then, we would not face such a problem now." But a few hardliners, like Leonard Idensohn, who heads the small, far-right Rhodesia National Party, criticize him for giving in now. "Smith and his 49 traitors in Parliament have sold us down the river," says Idensohn fiercely. "Fifty corpses hanging from ropes would be a marvelous thing...
Projections yesterday indicated that the 46-seat majority of Mr. Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and its governing coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, would shrink in the lower house of the German parliament by only six to ten seats, considerably less of a loss than had been expected...