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Slowly but inexorably, the old order seems to be giving way under Juan Carlos. Last week the 565-member Cortes (Parliament) embarked on the first genuine post-Franco reform by voting to lift a ban on political meetings. The government of aging (67) Premier Carlos Arias Navarro also acknowledged that negotiations were under way for Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan, to renounce his claim to the throne. The traditional Victory Day, May 30, which celebrates the defeat of the Republican side in the civil war, was discreetly renamed Armed Forces Day. In another token of change, portraits of Franco...
...Communist advance. The vote will determine their position in any possible coalition, but as Berlinguer himself recently told TIME, "experience teaches us that it is very hard to really change anything unless you have a say in the executive. Contrary to what is commonly thought abroad, the Parliament here works fairly well. What does not work is the Executive Branch, which is of course the major operational instrument of any state. So that is the level at which the real changes will have to be made...
...dhaman is a yellow-tinted snake, ranging from 4 ft. to 10 ft. in length, that once had the run of the Indian countryside. To the dismay of the Indian Parliament, these are hard times for the dhaman, as well as for the more than 20 other varieties of Indian herpetofauna that prey on, among other things, the domestic brown rat, known as Rattus rattus. Thanks in part to commerce, which values the hide of a snake more than that of a rat, the rodents have been winning the battle against their deadliest enemy. Two weeks ago, India...
Giscard's attempted reforms have hurt him with his own party; his abortion measure, for example, was opposed by many members of his centrist, multiparty coalition and got through parliament mainly through the support of opposition Deputies. At the same time, Giscard's early beckonings to the left failed to draw much support among the Socialists, who have become the largest party on the French left. Despite Giscard's innovations, real government and parliamentary power still lies with the old guard. Says Pierre Castagnou, 35, a Parisian catering-company executive whose views are typical of many young...
Shortly before the Parliament was to convene on Saturday morning, artillery and machine-gun fire reverberated throughout the capital of Beirut. House Speaker Kamal Asaad was forced to drive to the session guarded by a six-truck convoy of troops; other Deputies were escorted by gunmen from their own local militias. The Mediterranean villa that serves as a temporary Parliament itself came under heavy fire-though no one was hurt. Still, the fighting failed to deter a quorum of 69 out of 98 members of Parliament from convening. While mortars exploded all around, Sarkis, 51, who is governor of Lebanon...