Word: parliament
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Such explanations, however, have failed to quiet the protests over the costs of the whole enterprise. As recently as 1990, Parliament voted against taxing the Queen, though polls now show that about 80% of the population think the Queen should pay something. She is listening, and some sort of plans are on the drawing board. It is more likely that the next monarch will be faced with paying the bill. Even such pro-monarchy stalwarts as constitutional scholar Lord St. John (pronounced Sin-gin) of Fawlsey say that "in this day and age, the income-tax exemption is pretty hard...
...Italy legislators tried in 1975 to enact stiff bans in public places. The results have been mixed in a country that rarely takes any good-for-you legislation seriously: while theaters and public transportation are smoke- free, hospitals and schools are not always, and restaurants are decidedly not. Parliament will soon try again to pass a law that will so reduce public smoking areas that Bruno Simoncelli, a two-pack-a-day government filing clerk, frets, "I'll have to go back to smoking in the bathroom the way I did when I first started at 16." Even so, restaurants...
...heart," says Robert Waller, research director of the Harris U.K. polling firm. But because the Prime Minister believes that a Britain outside the European Community would face untenable political and economic isolation, he is obstinately insisting on bringing a procedural vote on the treaty to the floor of Parliament on Nov. 4. The vote is a test not only of European unity but also of John Major's stewardship of Britain...
...stood for. Ten years ago she was the personification of the German environmental and peace movements. One of the founders of the German Green Party, Kelly was a member of the West German Bundestag until 1990, when her party failed to win enough votes to remain in the parliament. Over the years, she had fallen out with many of her fractious party colleagues and became a marginal figure. Her compatriots were shocked into remembrance of Kelly, however, when she and her longtime lover and fellow Green Party founder, Gert Bastian, were found dead in their Bonn house. The state...
While the A.N.C. was admitting its abuse of power, South African President F.W. de Klerk was pushing a bill through Parliament that would allow unelected persons to be appointed to the Cabinet, opening the way for blacks in the government for the first time. But De Klerk had less success with a law giving amnesty for undetailed politically motivated crimes. The bill was vetoed by opposition M.P.s. De Klerk could still railroad the bill through his President's council, circumventing Parliament. But that, said the a.n.c., would only demonstrate his desperation to cover up the crimes of apartheid...