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...democratic, since they proclaim the equality of all men before God. In practice, Islamic nations, like other countries, have both liberals and conservatives, democrats and dictators. The Islamic socialists of Iraq and Libya?not to mention Iranian moderates who want to see a parliamentary democracy established by their new constitution???look with disdain on a semifeudal monarchy like Saudi Arabia. Says Hussein Bani-Assadi, son-in-law of Iran's Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan: "Ideologically, this revolution cannot support systems like Saudi Arabia's. Islam has no kings." The Saudis answer that they have an institution that serves the needs...
Britain has no written constitution???simply a collection of precedents embodied in acts of Parliament and historic understandings that have grown out of political crises and conflicts over the centuries. In the accepted framework of British politics, Heath had no choice but to accept his sovereign's verdict. The Queen, for her part, could not have spoken out publicly; she would have seemed to be usurping the power of Parliament. There is a built-in fiction to the British system: namely, the Cabinet is no more than the servant of the Crown. The reverse is closer to the truth...
...Dutch royal house has held sway almost without interruption for 400 years, and?according to the constitution???the Queen can do no wrong. That document makes no mention of her husband, however. Amid charges that Prince Bernhard took $1.1 million from Lockheed, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the House of Orange face their most serious crisis since World War II. (The three-man commission appointed to investigate the charges is not expected to reach a verdict for two months or so.) "The prince has been rather clumsy, that I won't deny," says a court official. "But the Lockheed...
Something for Everyone. The man who led the coup was Lieut. General Gregorios Spandidakis, 57, the army chief of staff, who announced that a "royal decree" had suspended eleven articles of the Greek constitution???even though Constantine was asleep in bed when the coup took place. The army won support from the navy and air force, and the military set out to form a new government. In a brief and simple ceremony, the new rulers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Archbishop and Primate of Greece. To show his disapproval, King Constantine did not attend the ceremony, refused...
Legislation. After brisk debate, the convention indorsed the Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution???an amendment which thus far has been ratified by only five states of the 36 necessary for the amendment to become a law. The topic of "protective legislation" (restriction of women workers to an eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women...