Word: emperor
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...time last week in the small Jerusalem courtroom, it was Jew v. Jew. Stately Baron Pinhas von Freudiger (his grandfather had been ennobled by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef), who was formerly a prominent Jewish leader in Budapest, took the witness stand. As he emotionally described his dealings with Adolf Eichmann in an effort to save the lives of Hungary's 1,000,000 Jews, a squat, burly man in a golfer's cap leaped to his feet screaming "Hypocrite! You duped us so you could save yourselves and your families! Our families were killed. You have...
Peter the Great. Father of the Fatherland and Emperor of All Russia, spent most of his reign (1682-1725) trying to imitate the culture of the West, but he also kept a cold eye on the East. In Siberia great bands of plunderers were digging up the tombs of a civilization that had disappeared from the pages of history by the 4th century A.D. The looters were after gold, and the tombs were rich in that. Being a practical man, Czar Peter simply gave orders that the looters be looted in turn. Soon plaques and buckles were pouring into...
...later U.S. envoy, James Monroe, Adrienne was finally released from her French prison and promptly set out to join her husband in his Austrian one. She collected her two daughters (her son, George Washington de La Fayette, had been sent to the U.S.), argued approval out of Austrian Emperor Francis II, and eventually marched through the jail door to join an astonished and emaciated La Fayette...
...perfectly preserved, precisely carved artifacts-remnants of a little-known chalcolithic people who predated Abraham by almost 1,500 years. A second expedition of diggers had brought back fresh finds from the reign of Shimon Bar Kochba, self-styled first President of Israel, who led an unsuccessful revolt against Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions...
...also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging, homosexual husband; Iskander Jamal, the flabby leader of the Moslem opposition. Besides its obvious parallel with Lebanon and its divided population, the book has a more esoteric derivation from the story of Emperor Nero, his favorite Poppaea, and her husband Otho. Apart from his ingenious historical allusions. Author McLaughlin, a TIME foreign news writer, offers wry observations on the follies of fanaticism, the ironies of power, and the value of the untidy solution and the unresolved crisis. Many a reader who has felt...