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Whether or not the Conservatives remain in power, Britain's new Parliament will almost surely be different in one significant respect: color. Although about 4% of the country's 56 million people are nonwhite -- mostly of Asian or Afro-Caribbean origin -- there have been no nonwhite members in the House of Commons in 58 years. Three Asians served briefly between 1892 and 1929, but no black has ever taken a seat. This time three nonwhite candidates, all running on the Labor Party ticket, are expected to be among the 650 members of the new Commons. Says Marc Wadsworth, a black...
...clocks on Suva's gray stone government buildings struck 10 a.m., the eleven men moved silently into Parliament. One wore a smart lightweight jacket over a striped shirt and tie and a sulu skirt wrapped around his waist, appropriate attire for the steamy, tropical capital of Fiji. The others, however, wore army fatigues and carried machine guns. Inside the chamber 51 members of the Fijian Parliament sat listening as a colleague expounded on the history of the islands. "Peace and harmony is the governing principle on which the Fijians have been running their lives," said Taniela Veitata. "This...
When the talk in Tehran is not of the war, it is about Khomeini's successor. The Ayatullah now plays no visible role in public life. By most accounts, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 52, the pragmatic Speaker of the Parliament, is the leading candidate to take over. At this point, it is unclear what impact his alleged role in the U.S.-Iran arms deal will have on the succession. "It's a time bomb ticking away," says one diplomat. While Iran's council of experts designated Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, 64, the senior cleric from Qum, as the formal successor...
...first truly democratic legislative election in the Philippines since Marcos abolished the old Congress in 1972, later to replace it with the unicameral National Assembly, his rubber-stamp parliament. The new Congress, which convenes in July, will take over the legislative powers that Aquino has been exercising by decree since Marcos' ouster in February 1986. Last week's election was the final step in restoring a system of checks and balances under the terms of a new constitution that was approved in a national referendum last February...
...Stellenbosch, another Nationalist defector, Esther Lategan, was beaten by an incumbent M.P., though she managed to reduce her opponent's majority from 5,622 votes in 1981 to 1,781. Nonetheless, with the liberal parties in disarray and only one independent candidate actually making it into the new Parliament, the challenge to the government from the moderate left had been effectively removed...