Word: parliament
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...least one group of officials, however, had already pricked up their ears. NATO ministers, meeting with Russian delegates Wednesday in Brussels, are concerned about the state of up to 16,000 tactical warheads still in Moscow?s silos, and want the Russian parliament to stop dragging its feet on ratifying the START II missile reduction treaty. Given that the traditional bugbear of NATO expansion is also on the table, Yeltsin's words look like less of a stumble ? and more a subtle bargaining ploy...
...darkest of the cautionary tales is that of the Dionne quintuplets of Ontario, Canada. Born in 1934 during the depths of the Depression, the five girls were seen by the Canadian government as a welcome tonic for a beleaguered public. By an act of Ontario's parliament, they were taken from their parents and exhibited behind glass at a facility christened Quintland. At one point they drew more tourists than Niagara Falls...
...Saddam and his parliament seem satisfied that the Russians will work on their behalf to implement the crucial article 22 of U.N. resolution 687 ? which, of course, you know by heart ? and its promise to end sanctions once Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction are neutralized. Saddam?s happy because he gets to look heroic to the Iraqi people, and didn?t have to deal directly with the hated Americans. Clinton should be happy, because he didn?t blink and the return of inspectors is unconditional. Who?d have thought ? a rational solution in the Gulf that doesn?t involve...
...book The Young Melbourne, which he once told me was his favorite. It is the story of William Lamb, Queen Victoria's early Prime Minister, who presided at the height of the British Empire. It describes a world in which the young British aristocracy served brilliantly in Parliament, finance and the military during the weekdays but then romped through each other's bedrooms on the weekends. They seized what they wanted--women, land and office...
BAGHDAD: Imagine 535 congressmen squatting on a D.C. sidewalk scribbling anti-Iraqi graffiti, and you have some idea of the level of hysteria prevalent in Iraq right now. While Saddam Hussein continued to insist he does not want a war, all 250 members of his parliament met outside the building Monday to chalk "down with America" on the stone streets. Speaker Saadoun Hammadi urged all Iraqi families to do the same outside their homes...