Word: parliament
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...Western credits come none too soon for Gorbachev's rickety economy. The day after Kohl's departure, Soviet leaders admitted for the first time that their government has been running a hefty budget deficit. Finance Minister Boris Gostev told members of the Soviet parliament that this year's red ink would total $58.8 billion...
...gyrations through the region have accelerated as he prepares the ground for the meeting later this month of the informal Palestinian parliament that is expected to decide whether to proclaim an independent state, based on territory currently occupied by Israel -- the West Bank and Gaza -- and run by a provisional government. At 59, Arafat is a man both admired as a revolutionary leader and despised as a terrorist, a leader who can be calmly reasonable or passionately shrill in the pursuit of his cause. Last week Arafat borrowed an Iraqi jet for a brief trip to Turkey, complete with...
...country's history since it split from the ruling Nationalists in 1982. As the Nationalists see it, black activists cannot topple them from power, but the Conservatives might. Calling for a return to total apartheid and accusing Botha of betraying white Afrikaners, the Conservatives became the official opposition in Parliament last year. All the party's parliamentary seats are in Transvaal province, the northernmost region settled by the voortrekkers who drove their ox wagons across the veld to escape British rule 150 years ago, but last week the Conservatives challenged the National Party at the local level in all four...
...Israeli government was elected in a system of proportional representation, in which more than a dozen political parties garnered seats in proportion to their total popular votes. To form a ruling coalition, a group must gain the participation of a majority of parliament's 120 members. The prime minister is usually the head of the largest party in the ruling coalition...
...smiling Shamir told supporters at campaignheadquarters he believed Likud could from a rulingmajority in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament,with small parties...