Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pattern continued for months. Something extraordinary would happen in the East -- down would come the barbed wire along the old Iron Curtain, off would go the light in the red star over the parliament building, home would go trainloads of Soviet troops, in would come a non-Communist prime minister -- and the response from Washington was the sound of one hand clapping. There were schoolmarmish homilies about the need to "test" Gorbachev's slogan of new political thinking and complaints about what he had not done for the West lately...
...second time in independent India's history. Several corruption scandals, as well as Gandhi's accelerating isolation from his people, helped squander the reserves of public support that in 1984 had given his party an unprecedented 415 of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Congress has been reduced to a sorry 192 seats, having lost power to a disparate opposition led by Gandhi's archrival, Vishwanath Pratap Singh...
...Every nation has the right to determine their own government," said Feydor Burlatsky, member of the Supreme Soviet, the official parliament. "There can be no doubt about this...
...Freimut Duve, a socialist member of the West German parliament, said, "Idon't see why one should be so pessimistic when weare witness to a radically Western-oriented,peaceful and successful revolution...
...announcement was made on national television by the new interim head of state, Manfred Gerlach, the leader of the non-Communist Liberal Democrat Party. He said he will serve until Parliament elects a permanent head of state...