Word: parliament
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BORIS YELTSIN In a step toward impeachment, parliament votes to keep prosecutor. Ain't democracy...
...genocide are banned in Turkey, despite confirmation of the Armenian massacres in Ottoman court records, the testimony of survivors, eyewitness accounts of missionaries and diplomats and over 100,000 official documents in the archives of numerous countries. In recent decades, 15 countries, the United Nations and the European Parliament have officially recognized the genocide of Armenians to be a fact of history. Yet, the "Sick Man of Europe" continues actively to combat this trend as it attempts to whitewash its past by funding chairs in Turkish Studies--with strings attached--at universities of repute...
...LUIS ARGANA, 66, Vice President of Paraguay; by several gunmen who sprayed his Jeep with bullets and a grenade as it rode through a street in Asuncion, the capital. Supporters of Argana, the leader of an effort to oust President Raul Cubas, blamed Cubas for the killing. Members of parliament immediately voted to begin impeachment proceedings against the President...
...used unnecessary force against hard-line lawmakers (had parliament buildings shelled...
...also married four times, lost three elections to Parliament, founded a school and led the movement for nuclear disarmament. He was twice jailed and dismissed from three jobs for his pacifism and unconventional views on sex. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 and died two decades later at 97, a humane rationalist to the last...