Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack has deeply alarmed Saudi leaders. Questions are being asked about whether Crown Prince Fahd, the heir apparent to King Khalid, commands enough authority, especially among the armed forces, to withstand a broader-based insurrection. One U.S. expert believes that the regime should embark on an emergency anticorruption campaign, but he is not particularly hopeful. His conclusion: "Some say the royal family can survive. Some say it is too late...
Soames' historic arrival was actually a bold gamble. It had been hoped that it would crown 14 weeks of painstaking negotiations among representatives of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's biracial Salisbury regime, the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance and the British government. Meeting at London's Lancaster House under the skillful chairmanship of British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the negotiators had hammered out important agreements on a new majority-rule constitution and a transitional plan leading to legal independence. A full cease-fire agreement, however, continued to elude the negotiators. The gamble was to send Soames into Salisbury...
...these assets, of course, are immovable and now in the hands of the Khomeini government (as are the famous crown jewels). But the Shah could easily have transferred cash income from them to banks abroad before his downfall, though stories of such transfers have so far proved unverifiable. Information on the Shah's holdings outside Iran ranges from sketchy to nonexistent. The New York lawsuit lists only four in the U.S. The most prominent is a 36-story Manhattan skyscraper owned by an American branch of the Pahlavi Foundation...
...King Farouk, who had been chosen by his father before he ever saw her. He divorced her in 1948 and married Soraya Esfandiari, whom he divorced in 1958 after she failed to bear him an heir. The next year he married Farah Diba. They have four children: Crown Prince Reza, Prince Ali Reza and Princesses Farahnaz and Leila...
...This game was a great disappointment," first-year Columbia coach Dieter Ficken said. "Whatever you work for, you try to crown it with something to show what...