Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some Middle East terrorist group had planted a bomb aboard the DC-8. The official report counters some of these claims with its own scientific analysis but leaves many questions unanswered. The bitter split on the safety board has raised eyebrows in Ottawa, and two opposition Members of Parliament have called for a judicial inquiry into the tragedy...
...United States has breeched its policy [of not talking to the PLO] and the credibility of the United States has been compromised," said Netanyahu, a Likud bloc parliament member...
...tally -- 1,344 ayes, five nays and 27 abstentions -- might have added up to a lopsided victory elsewhere, but the flicker of opposition to a key Kremlin program was a historic event in the Soviet parliament, long considered no more than a rubber stamp. Had the leadership not sought a compromise last week between the central government and a handful of republics over proposed electoral changes, the count of naysayers might have been even higher...
When Gorbachev, at last June's party conference, unveiled his plan to replace the existing parliament with a two-tier legislative system, he hailed it as a milestone on the way to "democratization." The Kremlin obviously underestimated just how democratic the response would be once the suggested legislation was presented for "public discussion" in October. More than 300,000 comments and suggestions flooded in; as a result, 58 out of 117 proposed clauses in the package of constitutional amendments and election laws were modified. Leading the legal revolt was the Baltic republic of Estonia, where the push for political reform...
...most of the session's 37 speakers from sniping at the Baltic state. While Estonian President Arnold Ruutel watched impassively from the dais, his republic was accused of "creating a hotbed of tensions." In his own presentation, Ruutel repeated demands that Estonians be allowed to decide what form of parliament they wanted. There should be no place in the new laws, said Ruutel, for "formalistic texts that do not take into account the specific differences and demands" of each region...