Word: parliament
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Saying she had "more pressing" interests,Winnie Mandelaresigned from her Cabinet post one day before her estranged husband, President Nelson Mandela, was to dismiss her. Mrs. Mandela will remain an ANC member of Parliament and athorn in the president's side...
...Knows," Hendrix solos with an absolute seriousness that would soon disappear from records in the face of the absurdity and high camp of Parliament-Funkadelic an other funkers. "Who Knows" is a song about confusion, with Hendrix' ever-changing guitar sound feverishly groping through chaotic fields of sound, as Miles and Cox groove along sympathetically. Hendrix opens his last solo of the ten-minute track with an eerie, apocalyptic, metal-on-metal sound-like a restless spirit trapped in a grotesquely funky prison. Twenty-five years after the fact, it is clear that Hendrix is still the master of pure...
...Duma, the lower body of the Russian Parliament, voted nearly unanimously (286-1) to prohibit the use of the army except in case of foreign invasion, and called for the government to forge animmediate ceasefire in Chechnya"without any preconditions."TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays that the move actually will have very little effect on government policy. "It's a purely symbolic act," he says. "But it's a moral blow to theprestige of Yeltsin. In practical terms, if the president doesn't like it he can just dissolve the parliament...
...Yassin Ramadan told a state newspaper that the government is not considering a release oftwo Americans imprisoned in Baghdadfor illegally crossing the Kuwait border. Secretary of State Warren Christopher today demanded their release, holding President Saddam Hussein responsible for their safety. Ramadan corrected a statement by a member of parliament who indicated over the weekend that the Americans could be released shortly.TIME Middle East bureau chief Dean Fischersays Hussein controls the fate of the prisoners. "The courts count for nothing, the Parliament counts for nothing and the vice president counts for nothing," says Fischer...
...deputy minister of arts and culture, had denounced the slow pace of her husband's reforms, had taken an unauthorized foreign trip and has been accused of taking bribes. But she remains president of the Women's League of the African National Congress and has not been ousted from Parliament. TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne says the President had decided to fire his wife a number of days ago but did not take action until after Winnie chastised his government for spending thousands of rand on new tablecloths for ceremonies during Queen Elizabeth II's visit to South Africa...