Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...towering Negro named Henri Christophe tore the white center out of the French tricolor and proclaimed himself emperor of the world's first black republic. Nine years of bloody rebellion had, in fact, led to the extermination of Haiti's white population. Today Christophe's flag, a somber red and blue banner, still flies over the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince--a reminder of a painful past...
Haiti in the mid-Twentieth Century is not much closer to republicanism than it was in its first days of independence, In 1820 Emperor Christophe committed suicide, inaugurating a succession of dictators, cabals, marine interventions, and assassinations. The whitedomed palace is presently occupied by Francois Duvalier, a 56-year old country doctor who boosted himself to power in 1957 following a ten-month, period of turmoil in which six governments ruled...
Died. Nam Phuong, 49, last Empress of Viet Nam, convent-bred Cochin Chinese bride (in 1934) of Puppet Emperor Bao Dai, who used her imperial influence to further Roman Catholicism, lived apart from her playboy husband after his 1955 exile; of a heart attack; in Chabrignac, France...
...Your cover picture is reminiscent of the judgment of Lord George Macartney, the first British ambassador to reach the court of a Chinese emperor...
...m.p.h. wind on Squaw Island, site of Brambletyde, the Kennedys' shingle-sided, rented summer home. Obstetrician Walsh advised Jackie to abandon her social calendar for the remainder of the year, including the up coming state dinners for the King of Afghanistan Sept. 5 and the Emperor of Ethiopia Oct. 1 , to ensure "complete rehabilitation and continuing good health...