51. The president of the Italian senate, Nicola Mancino, said the parliament would give its approval to the mission Tuesday. 52. The self-declared Bosnian Croat parliament has given qualified backing to an accord providing for a Moslem-Croat federation in Bosnia, the Croatian news agency Hina said Sunday. 53. The Ukrainian parliament has given the local legislature until next Monday to reverse its decision. 54. On that day parliament gave Schiphol a further two weeks to try to close the loopholes in the pass system. 55. Parliament also Wednesday gave the nod to a controversial plan by President Nelson Mandela to pay tribal leaders from central rather than provincial government coffers. 56. Parliament must also give the designated prime minister its vote of confidence. 57. The ANC-dominated parliament had given Mandela the authority to issue decrees to settle the dispute. 58. The Czech parliament Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a government compensation programme for the victims of Nazi persecution during World War II. 59. The European parliament gave European Commission President Jacques Santer an unprecedented ultimatum on Wednesday over the mad cow crisis, demanding he implement reforms or face dismissal. 60. The French parliament Wednesday gave final approval to a presidential amnesty for some minor offences, a post-election tradition instituted by Charles de Gaulle. |