Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much has been broken in Bosnia over the last year: broken cease-fires, broken promises and broken lives. So it should have come as no surprise that the Bosnian Serb parliament shattered hopes by again rejecting peace last week. This after their leader, Radovan Karadzic, had signaled his willingness to support the Vance-Owen peace plan, a proposal that has already been accepted by both the Croats and the Bosnian Muslims...
CARLO AZEGLIO CIAMPI, ITALY'S NEW PRIME MINister, hit the ground running last week -- and almost stayed there. Hours after swearing in his Cabinet, Ciampi faced his first crisis. The lower house of Parliament voted in a secret ballot to let former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi avoid trial on four of the most serious of six charges of corruption and election-law violations. The votes came either from his old cronies or from opposition legislators who want to force new elections. Thousands of people took to the streets in Rome, Milan, Genoa and other cities to protest that cowardly display...
Their signature is a promising, but still essentially meaningless step. The "Bosnian Serb parliament" still must agree to the plan, and even if they do, their compliance is far from assured. Signing the plan could be nothing more than a gimmick to defuse building world pressure...
...wins, Yeltsin promises to take "tough steps" to end Russia's power struggle. The battle has spread beyond the parliament. His rebellious Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, has launched his own campaign against the reforms, claiming he has "suitcases" of evidence of official corruption. An angered Yeltsin compared his former ally's sense of honor to "a dirty cleaning...
...times it seemed as if the sound and theatricals of Parliament-Funkadelic were being recreated down to the last detail. Songs such as "How Much Soul" and "Hands to the Heavens/Feet to the Floor" were interspersed with skits including the heated battle of Funk and Anti-Funk, "The Cataclysmic Duel Between the Messiah Monk and Funkistopholes...