Word: parliament
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...agreement calls for reorganization of the Parliament with a strong President, expected to be General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The legislature will offer unprecedented power to the opposition: a re-established upper chamber, the Senate, will have 100 members to be chosen in free elections in June; the Sejm, or lower chamber, will retain its 460 seats, of which the majority will continue to be reserved for candidates representing the ruling Communist Party and its allies, but 35% of Sejm members will be freely elected. The pact even provides for opposition media, complete with a newspaper and regular television and radio programming...
What makes Lebanon's current predicament more hopeless than ever is the disintegration of the presidency. Somehow the office had survived previous crises nominally intact as the main symbol of Lebanese nationhood. But when President Amin Gemayel's six-year term expired in September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...
Botha told Parliament he will shortly set an election date for later this year, probably by September, following which he will bestow the seal of the republic on his successor. Since the National Party is certain to retain power and De Klerk has already won the party's vote of confidence, he will become the new chief executive. Tired of the brooding, dictatorial presence of Botha, few will shed tears for the departure of the Great Crocodile...
Georgia's president, Otari Cherkeziya, also offered to resign, and the matter will be considered at the next session of Georgia's Supreme Soviet parliament, which is empowered to remove him, Tass said...
When 1,279 scientists gathered at the prestigious Soviet Academy of Sciences last week to select delegates to the new Soviet parliament, nobody expected them to be happy. The procedure by which their slate of candidates was chosen had been widely criticized as both undemocratic and politically biased. In a series of "pre-electoral" meetings, the academy's ruling presidium had narrowed a list of 121 nominees to 23, eliminating such proponents for reform as space scientist Roald Sagdeyev and human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov...