Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his people. He does not believe that he is finished, not even close to it. Despite the disappointments and the brutal punishment he has taken in the streets, he feels it is his duty to protect the throne and thus his country. He believes one day his son, Crown Prince Reza, 18, will ascend the throne. But not now, not even under a regency council. The Shah wants his heir to have a viable monarchy, not a weak one. As for talk about a constitutional monarchy, the Shah believes Iran already...
Defending champion lowa State captured its fourth consecutive team crown while host University of Colorado's Mary Decker took the individual honors. Ivy-rival Princeton finished 12th in the team standings while the University of Maryland, which tied Harvard last week at the Eastern championships, grabbed ninth...
...that the Saudis, whose economic support is crucial to Egypt, have not publicly endorsed the Camp David accords. In truth they have been giving him some behind-the-scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat or Egypt will be considered an attack on Saudi Arabia." He went along with a pro forma condemnation of Camp David, but fought off efforts to impose economic sanctions against Egypt...
...turmoil was viewed as, in the words of one Iranian specialist, "very dangerous." From Jimmy Carter on down, the Administration is staunchly committed to the Shah. "Our friendship and our alliance with Iran is one of the important bases on which our entire foreign policy depends," the President told Crown Prince Reza, a student at the U.S. Air Force Academy, when he visited the White House on his 18th birthday last week. "We're thankful for his move toward democracy," Carter added, referring to the Shah's political reforms. "We know it is opposed by some...
Swathed in a velvet train, with the imperial crown carefully balanced on her coiffed brown hair, Queen Elizabeth II opened the final session of Parliament before her subjects vote again in a general election. In one of Britain's better pageants, the Queen spoke from a golden throne in the gilded House of Lords, surrounded by such royal functionaries as her Gold Stick in Waiting and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant. So many ermined peers and bejeweled peeresses were present that a journalistic wag observed there was a "tiara boom today...