Word: parliament
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Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, addressing the Parliament last week after floods struck along the Meuse River. Kok was quoted in the New York Times...
...World War II, and it is upsetting to those who believe that Jews who leave Russia should be going to Israel, even the U.S., but in no case to Germany. ``They are going from one hell to another,'' says Dov Shilansky, a member of the Israeli parliament from the rightist Likud group. ``They are living next to people who killed their brethren.'' But many of those who live in Germany argue that they have a right, even a duty, to remain. ``If all of us fled Germany,'' says Shlomit Tulgan, a student in Berlin, ``then Hitler would have achieved...
...hopeful revivalism, a current of fear and pessimism lurks beneath the surface. Anti-Semitism and nationalism stir memories of pogroms past. ``It is still possible to be frightened,'' says Alla Gerber, a Jewish member of the Russian parliament. ``There is a feeling that we are guests who should leave on time.'' Berend, in Budapest, says there have been anti- Semitic overtones in recent election campaigns, such as the word zsido (Jew) scrawled on posters of the Liberal Democrats. ``Things seem good now,'' she says, ``but no one knows what will happen if the economy keeps going down and people start...
...rhetoric of Parliament and of private life is extremely successful in "The Madness of King George." Bennett's script far surpasses in quality and density most other attempts at filmic eloquence. In comparison, Hollywood looks doubly vapid, and Kieslowski-type efforts seem anemic...
...political uncertainty, drove the ruble toward an all-time low against the dollar, even as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund was in Moscow to review the govern- ment's commitment to economic reform. At stake is a $12 billion loan package to back an economic-stabilization program. Parliament jeopardized that program last week by deciding to delay a critical vote on the 1995 budget that is intended to curb runaway government spending and re- duce the deficit. A revised budget, now being hastily put together by government economists, is supposed to allow for the estimated $1.2 billion...