Word: parliament
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...that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha. The officers said Botha also knew about a secret security cell known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both inside and outside South Africa. Brigadier Jack Cronje testified that police kept files...
More disclosures may be coming. "We need to recognize there was guilt, and we have a responsibility for it," says Verena Grendelmeier, a Swiss member of parliament who has been pressing for an investigation for two years and is now getting action. Earlier this month the lower house of parliament voted unanimously to set up an independent panel of experts to look into wartime financial history. With approval by the upper house expected shortly, the commission is to start work next April. It will be authorized to penetrate all levels of secrecy inside the banks, but unfortunately for those...
...settlement. Jewish organizations in several countries urge that it be given to surviving victims of Nazism, or to charities or Israel. That step is needed to right the wrong the Allies perpetrated when they ignored individual claims on the gold, suggests Greville Janner, a British Member of Parliament and chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust. "Now is the time to do what is worthy and decent and honorable," he says, "which is to give the residual gold to the victims, Jewish and non-Jewish." Such a step is "highly unlikely," a British Foreign Office spokesman says, since the remaining gold...
...associated with 1956--freedom of expression, desire for self-government, liberalization of politics and the economy--meant very different things to different people. The first free post-communist elections of 1990 had put a conservative party in power, some of whose members expressed openly racist, anti-Semitic views in Parliament and in the press. People began to realize that freedom of expression could mean skinhead demonstrations as well as democratic debate; self-government could mean an ugly strain of nationalism and xenophobia as well as independence; and economic liberalization could mean a "wild" brand of capitalism where a few people...
...practically Italian in its instability. The economy, once the envy of the world, has only now begun to emerge from four years of stagnation. Yet despite all appearances of revolution, the regime remains the same in the eyes of most Japanese. The nation is ruled not by the parliament or the Prime Minister but rather by a force as faceless as ancient Emperors and as intractable as smog: Kasumigaseki, the district in Tokyo where government bureaucrats have their offices and from which they have colonized the rest of Japan...