Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While their strategic conceptions may lack a certain realism, the Greens have managed to introduce many important concerns into the political arena. In their present form, provided they don't grow too powerful or become specifically anti-Parliamentarian, they are a sign of healthy democracy in West Germany...
Barely a month ago, Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, 53, was a fledgling parliamentarian with a mediocre record as his party's spokesman for industrial relations. Last weekend he was elected Prime Minister of Australia, leading to victory a listless, often divided Labor Party that has held power for just three of the past 34 years. Claiming about 74 seats in the 125-seat House of Representatives (an approximate swing of 22), Hawke and his Laborites ended the 7½-year reign of Incumbent Malcolm Fraser and his Liberal/ National Party coalition. Fraser, a three-time winner whose majorities...
...vote in the national referendum that elected him President. In his address to parliament the following day, he spoke with authority and emotion, seemingly making a conscious effort to transform himself from an understudy into a national leader. "He has an important trait," said one former parliamentarian. "He listens, and in this part of the world we need a leader who listens...
That closeness, that life in the President's shadow earned Mubarak mocking nicknames of "Sadat's Sadat," "court jester" and "empty face" among Egyptian critics. As one disgruntled parliamentarian put it before last week's tragedy...
Following the ritual wreath laying at the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe-attended by such fellow Socialists as former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Greek Actress and Parliamentarian Melina Mercouri-Mitterrand proceeded to the Left Bank and a new ceremony of his own: a pilgrimage to the Panthéon that provided a television spectacular that was even better orchestrated than Giscard's farewell...