Word: crowning
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...Clinton, Mass., town meeting in March, however, Carter declared that "there must be a resolution of the Palestine problem and a homeland for the Palestinians." Assad agrees with other Arab leaders that the creation of a Palestinian state is required for peace. In Jeddah, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd-who will visit Washington next week-suggested to newsmen that the Palestine Liberation Organization would be willing to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for a Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. U.S. diplomats, however, doubted that P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat...
...third of Tigre province. In the western provinces of Goijam and Gondar, 2,000 men of the right-wing Ethiopian Democratic Union (E.D.U.) are fighting for a non-Marxist civilian government and deny charges that they plan to restore a monarchy under Haile Selassie's sole surviving son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 60, who is now in London. About 1,000 shiftas-armed nomads of the Western Somali Liberation Front-periodically mount hit-and-run attacks along the Somali frontier...
Died. Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, 87, patriarch of the Carlist family of pretenders to the Spanish throne; of a heart attack; in Chur, Switzerland. Distant cousins of King Juan Carlos, Xavier's family fought and lost two civil wars for the crown during the 19th century; the prince was heir to their romantic lost cause. Although the Roman Catholic Carlists supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the generalissimo refused to recognize their dynastic claims and subsequently expelled Prince Xavier from the country. In recent years, a family feud between Xavier's sons-Leftist Prince Hugo...
Maryland has been invited to all seven playoffs, has missed the final only once--an incredible feat--and has taken the crown twice...
...defending champion football team that rolled over its first three opponents and looked on its way to a third straight Ivy League crown gets beaten virtually under water in the fourth game of the season when a Cornell punter runs for a 78-yard touchdown...