Word: antimonarchists
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...some European nations. Certainly today's rulers have serious problems. Greece's young King Constantine is at loggerheads with the politicians in a country where politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan's Hussein is doing his best to stave off antimonarchist rioters instigated by his leftist neighbors, Syria and the United Arab Republic. Only last week the new African nation Burundi ended the 400-year-long tribal rule of King Ntare...
...need for "redistribution of income to the poorer classes" and "a dash of socialism." Papandreou the elder had his differences with King Constantine, but he nonetheless favored the monarchy as an institution, arguing only that "the King should reign and not rule." His son is a far more outspoken antimonarchist. In an emotional speech last week, he announced that "the Center Union does not accept the King as co-ruler." Stephanopoulos & Co., he said, "are puppets who take their orders from the King...
...Olympic gold medal in 1960, Constantine can rely for some time on sympathy for his father and the good feeling engendered by his impending marriage next January to Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie to facilitate his task. But ultimately Constantine can calm Greece's latent antimonarchist feelings only by calling, like his father, on the motto of his royal house: "My power is the love of my people...
...water-pumping jeeps. By that time some 2,000 law-school students had been joined by 1,000 allies from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins: "We don't want an idiot king who doesn't know how to govern." The anti-Falangist students countered with chants of "S.E.U. no! Falange...
...English army. Following the 18th Century wars as avidly as some men chase fires, he became a colonel in the Portuguese army, a major general in the Polish army, even offered his military services to Catherine the Great, but she passed him up.* A venomous antimonarchist at home, he railed against that "reptile" and "dolt," George III. In 1773 he left England for good...