Word: danish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the benefit of a $580,000 annual allowance provided by the junta. Constantine has kept a deliberately low profile in Rome. The King, his pretty, temperamental Danish-born wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 26, and their three small children live in a modest but handsomely situated rented villa on the Via di Porta Latina. Queen Mother Frederika, 56, and Constantine's sister, Princess Irene, 31, live in a more secluded villa north of Rome. Except for occasional appearances at horse shows and the like, all avoid Rome's lively social scene...
...Last week, despite a provisional settlement, more than 250,000 workers were still out on strike in the worst general labor tie-up since World War II. Beyond the current strike is the issue of who pays how much for Denmark's cradle-to-grave security. Danish taxes are among the world's heaviest-nearly 53% of last year's gross national product. Meanwhile, the biggest industry in the country is public administration...
...past year, baffled Danish authorities have been searching through Glistrup's books for some secret that would explain his legerdemain, but Glistrup insists that there is no secret. "My yearly accounts are always negative," he boasts. "I explain this to the tax people. They agree. As a lawyer, I should welcome this absurd theater, so absurd that it beats Ionesco completely, but what I want to do is show how unreasonable these tax laws...
Glistrup disapproves not only of the way Danish taxes are collected but even more of the way they are spent. Denmark's $8.2 billion budget could be cut by at least one-fifth, he says, and 80% of the civil servants transferred to productive jobs "without harming the socially weak." He proposes closing all Danish embassies abroad, for example, since Denmark really has no independent foreign policy. The Danish army? Disband it, Glistrup advises. "We should replace the general staff and the Ministry of Defense with a Russian-language recording that says 'We surrender...
...energy seemed illimitable. In his last years, Melchior continued to hunt big game in Africa, served as international president of the Danish Royal Guard, and last fall conducted the orchestra at the San Francisco Opera's 50th anniversary concert. He grew as deaf as Beethoven, but his passion for music was not impaired, nor his concern. A sizable portion of his time was devoted to administering the Heldentenor Foundation, which he established in 1968 to encourage new talent in an annual competition...