Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year ago, the country's voters elected their first parliament, an unprecedented exercise in democracy by the authoritarian standards of the Arabian peninsula. But for the past two weeks, armies from the conservative North and socialist South have waged bloody but inconclusive armor and artillery battles in bitter rivalry over the division of political power and the distribution of oil revenues. "Unity is dead," said an Arab League | official in Cairo, and so were hopes that political pluralism had taken root in traditionally monarchical Arabia...
...care about the president of the council are the people vying for the job. In that case, shouldn't they be the ones voting? Or perhaps the council should simply cease to involve itself in other students' affairs and fill a long-empty niche as the Harvard-Radcliffe Model Parliament. With Model Senate, Congress, United Nations, and Security Council, what else is missing...
...would inherit the post vacated by former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, who resigned two weeks ago. Like Hosokawa, Hata has been an outspoken critic of Japan's scandal-plagued political system; he also faces the challenge of holding together the fragile seven-party coalition that brought Hosokawa to power. Parliament is expected to vote on a new Prime Minister this week...
Tuesday: Attended a Council of Europe parliamentary meeting in Strasbourg, where he complained about the limited visa he'd been given. He told fellow parliament members, "You are not democrats, you are agents of the CIA." He hurled clumps of tulips at student protesters and boasted that his singular political style is "in key" with the Russian people: "It's like in sexual relations," he explained. "You have to be in harmony." Wednesday: Was said by a Russian newspaper to have filed suit against local political opponents who, he claimed, had insulted his dignity and honor. Thursday: Accused European Council...
Friday: Got in a fistfight with a departing colleague in a parliament hallway, vowing to another, "I'll tear your beard out hair by hair...