Word: parliament
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Differing histories and approaches by the West were the reasons the movements toward democracy and free enterprise took opposite routes in South Africa and Eastern Europe, a former member of the British Parliament said in a speech at the Institute of Politics yesterday...
...seemed to have assumed that thepolitical transition would just happen withoutanyone worrying about it," the former member ofthe British Parliament added...
...earned an Iranian death warrant against Rushdie 5 1/2 years ago, is the misfortune of becoming a lightning rod for the passions of Islamic zealots. Five days before her surprise appearance in court to face charges of making inflammatory statements, a crowd of 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Parliament building in Dhaka to bay for her blood. They branded her "an apostate appointed by imperial forces to vilify Islam." One particularly militant faction threatened to loose thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she was executed...
...guns that have been spotted around Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February. The symbolic NATO strike did the trick. Within two hours, Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the self-styled Bosnian Serb parliament, had phoned U.N. officials in Zagreb to say that the stolen weapons would be returned. By the next day they had been handed back...
...Sweethearts Together" plays just as trite as it sounds and doesn't merit much mention. "Suck on the Jugular," however, could be the joint project with Parliament-Funkadelic that never was. The song showcases underwater organ sounds and semi-soulful background vocals (Ivan Neville has a hand in both). These elements bear more than a passing resemblance to those employed by Primal Scream--with George Clinton of P-Funk fame--in "Funky Jam" on their latest album, "Give Out But Don't Give...