Word: parliament
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...Clinton Administration has branded as "hogwash" a claim by the speaker of the Iraqi parliament that thetwo Americans arrested just inside Iraqlast week were U.S. saboteurs. The two, civilian workers William Barloon and David Daliberti, were sentenced Saturday to eight years in prison for entering the country illegally, though they said they were visiting a friend just across the border from Kuwait. At home, the White House fought GOP calls to consider a military rescue mission if Iraq does not release the men. Sunday, presidential candidate Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said President Clinton should publicly weigh military options, while...
...purge touched off an unseemly political tug-of-war between the Kremlin and Moscow's city hall. Sergei Gerasimov, the prosecutor appointed to take Ponomaryov's place, quickly resigned. In Parliament Yeltsin's opponents pushed through a lopsided vote of no confidence in Interior Minister Victor Yerin, who is in effect the national chief of police. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, once a strong Yeltsin ally, fumed that only "criminals and bandits" would be in favor of firing senior police officials. Then he threatened to resign...
France's counterintelligence service, the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), had been tracking the spying since 1992, according to Le Monde. A female CIA officer and her male partner first tried to bribe a member of parliament with 500-franc notes to reveal France's negotiating position on world-trade talks, when Washington was pressing Paris to lower agricultural subsidies and open its television-broadcast market to U.S. programs. Another senior official in the Ministry of Communications was offered cash for intelligence on telecommunications and audiovisual policy. A technician for France-Telecom, the French telephone network, was also recruited...
...communications technology, from the printing press to the telegraph, generally spurred mass political participation. True, today's Pollyannas could end up looking as foolish as the doomsayers of that era once did -- like Alfred Lord Tennyson, who gushed that the telegraph would result in ``war banners furled'' and a ``parliament of the world.'' Yet it is really our own century that has turned from enthusiasm for the benefits of science to a kind of techno-pessimism: instead of advancing participatory democracy, early radio and then television actually buoyed the strength of central governments, authoritarian leaders and mass-merchandise hucksters...
...background are still more bubbling controversies over public money. Investigators are trying to find out what happened to funds missing from a now defunct tourism organization headed by Peter Mokaba, a prominent A.N.C. Member of Parliament. (Mokaba has not been accused of any wrongdoing.) And as much as $40 million in foreign donations may be missing from an association the A.N.C. set up to help former political prisoners. Some of these problems may have been caused simply by poor bookkeeping or inexperienced administrators, but South Africans are still concerned that stories of corruption will jeopardize investment...