Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the serious manpower shortage, Congress is in no mood to vote for a draft, not in peacetime, not with an election coming up. The most that Congress can probably be persuaded to accept this session is some form of registration...
...more than two hours after Bazargan's address, another kangaroo court was in session, and the prisoner was an international figure. The Komiteh, a group of activists around Khomeini who wield more effective power in Iran than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last...
...Hoveida sat on a chair in front of the court, which consisted of a mullah and two Iranian judges from the now disbanded secular courts. Composed but groggy because he had taken a sleeping pill earlier, Hoveida looked around in amazement and said he had been promised an afternoon session. The presiding judge replied: "Day or night makes no difference, because this is a revolutionary court...
...approaches, the roly-poly former economics professor has become the target of increasingly heavy fire from trade unions, the leftist opposition and even the largest party in his own coalition, the Gaullists. Last week, at the insistence of Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, the French parliament was called into emergency session for the first time since World War II. Although Barre has succeeded in stabilizing the franc by turning France's trade deficit into a surplus, he has been unable to lower inflation, currently 10.2% annually. Moreover, his policies led to a one-third increase in unemployment, which last month...
Despite growing political opposition, the Premier is in no immediate danger of losing his job. Chirac, who had convened the emergency parliamentary session in order to embarrass Giscard, was quickly outmaneuvered last week. When the Socialists and Communists called for a no-confidence motion against the coalition government, Chirac was reluctantly forced to support Barre. The leftists, whose family quarrels contributed heavily to their defeat in last year's elections, are still divided. The Communist and Socialist parties could not agree even on the wording of a no-confidence motion, with the result that the two parties produced their...