Word: rubber-stamps
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...same time, Osagyefo supervised the drafting of a new education act that would give the state firm control over all Ghanaian education. Under the provisions of the new bill (which is certain to pass the rubber-stamp Parliament), government-appointed school board governors will exercise censorship over textbooks and teaching methods so that they hew closely to the government's chosen line. Even Nkrumah's leftist neighbor, Guinea's Sekou Touré, was put off by this action. Refusing to come to Accra for the installation of Nkrumah, Touré said to a visitor: "Who ever heard...
...members of rubber-stamp Parliament; among candidates are such loyal King's men as Amman Ford dealer, Shehab Itwal...
...parties (including a sham offshoot of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control of the Volkskammer (Peoples' Chamber), a rubber-stamp legislature that follows Ulbricht's every...
Sure enough, the French-designed "democratic" assembly proved to be a rubber-stamp affair dominated by a French chairman. Ngo Dinh Diem resigned, and the French indignantly branded him a revolutionary, stripped him of all his academic titles and government decorations. "Take them," retorted Diem. "I don't need them. They are not important...
...consumer. But what really irks both parties in both chambers is the fact that the bill takes away from Congress the power to write farm legislation and gives it to the farmers and Agriculture Secretary Freeman. Under the bill, Congress cannot change the plans, must either kill or rubber-stamp them as they stand...